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| 14 | [[quoteright:299:[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/i_was_quite_a_looker.jpg]]]] |
| 15 | [[caption-width-right:299:"Can't you tell? It's Li/Lo and me!"]] |
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| 17 | ->''"People show me pictures of me when I was nineteen, and I go "Oh no", and they think that I'm embarrassed by the way I used to look; no no, I'm embarrassed by how I look ''now''. I'm ''jealous'' of how I used to look, and it depresses me."'' |
| 18 | -->-- '''Creator/RickyGervais''' |
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| 21 | You all know them. That kindly old lady who lives down the street. The [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens tiny]], wrinkly, [[OldMaster owner of the local dojo]]. The [[WhiteDwarfStarlet aged, fading seductress]]. The [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior crotchety old guy]] who hardly ever leaves his house. Wrinkled, aged, musty... but they weren't always that way. |
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| 23 | Once upon a time they were attractive, ''very'' attractive. This will be revealed to the rest of the cast if they ever run into a FountainOfYouth, or via old photographs or perhaps just to us the viewers in a {{Flashback}}. Becomes an ActorAllusion if this is true for the actor as well (bonus points if the old photos are actual past photos of them). For instance, Creator/DianaRigg played CoolOldLady Olenna Tyrell on ''Series/GameOfThrones'', who often spoke of her former beauty, and Rigg herself was a sex symbol in the '60s. |
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| 25 | Compare GloryDays, TheChainsOfCommanding (for those who lose their looks due to stressful jobs), FormerlyFit (referring to those who were in great physical shape back in their prime), and WhiteDwarfStarlet (for old ladies who were performers in their youth). Contrast SheIsAllGrownUp; SilverFox; ReallySevenHundredYearsOld; and IWasQuiteAFashionVictim. |
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| 27 | Related to IJustWantToBeBeautiful for when the character misses their old beauty, and OldPeopleAreNonsexual when it's implied that they stopped getting around when they got older and less hot. |
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| 29 | [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] the ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon Platinum]]'' character. |
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| 33 | !!Examples: |
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| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * Mika from ''Manga/AkkanBaby'' downplays this as she's not bad looking, nor is she old, but, instead, is a FormerlyFit version of this trope, as [[spoiler: she became fat due the eating to cope with the stress of not being able to confess her pregnancy to Shigeo, Puni's father]]. |
| 38 | * Yolanda from the Church of Violence in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. The same omake also reveals that Balalaika was an adorable (and very shy) nine-year-old, and ''[[spoiler:Boris]]'' was a {{Bishonen}} before he joined the military. [[spoiler:Dutch]], meanwhile, takes off running before the omake even starts. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': {{Flashback}}s show that Yamamoto's lieutenant Choujirou Sasakibe, [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/bleach/images/d/d5/Chojiro.png/revision/latest?cb=20120730221100&path-prefix=en while not exactly ugly]] as an older man, was [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/bleach/images/f/f9/C504P11_Sasakibe_swears_to_train_his_Bankai.png/revision/latest?cb=20120823202001&path-prefix=en a completely gorgeous white-haired pretty boy]] in his youth. |
| 40 | * In ''Literature/{{Campione}}'', the ageless witch Lucretia Zola used to date Godou Kusanagi's grandfather. She tells Godou that his grandfather looked like him back when he was young. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'''s SkyPirate Dola is old, fat, and wrinkled, but she claims that she looked just like the young female protagonist Sheeta when she was young. In fact, there's a painting of her in her cabin that shows her younger self essentially looking like [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki Miyazaki]]'s beautiful earlier protagonist, ''[[Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaä]]''. |
| 42 | * The epilogue of the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' shows us [[TokenMiniMoe Azmaria]] Hendrich as a 90-year-old woman. She doesn't exactly look ''bad'', but the mangaka opted to draw her rather realistically, making the contrast rather...striking. |
| 43 | * Emperor Charles di Britannia from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' isn't exactly super ugly at age 62, but he certainly cut an [[http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/File:Young_charles.jpg impressive figure]] when he was younger. |
| 44 | * Madoka Mano, Yohko's grandmother and mentor in ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'', when she's de-aged at one point. She also has a habit of [[InnocentFanserviceGirl not wearing a top]] to ([[PleasePutSomeClothesOn Yohko's dismay]]), which is a bit par for the course for that show... |
| 45 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' |
| 46 | ** Gennai in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. Somehow, he ''reverts'' back to this form in the latter. |
| 47 | ** The flavor text for [[https://wikimon.net/images/f/f2/Babamon_crusader.jpg Babamon]] implies that she used to be a beautiful [[https://wikimon.net/images/0/04/Rosemon_collectors3.png Rosemon]]. |
| 48 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 49 | ** Bulma, who normally can't stand the Muten Roshi when he's being pervy towards her, got excited when she saw a [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/8/85/YoungRoshi.png/revision/latest?cb=20101106231254 picture of him as a young man]] and found it hard to believe it was him. Goku later met the young Roshi through time travel in filler. |
| 50 | ** Speaking of Bulma, her and Chi-Chi get hit by this as well. Their looks, admittedly, haven't faded too much. But in comparison to their husbands, who age a lot slower due to being Saiyans, they're definitely beginning to show their age. It's particularly after the time-skips at the beginning and end of the Majin Buu Saga that the aging starts to show. However, this more due to her hairstyle. In ''Super'', where she's even younger, she looks much cuter and younger when her hair is down. |
| 51 | ** This is also the case for the Ancestral Kaioshin in the Majin Buu Arc. In his case however, its not a result of natural aging, as he's actually young-to-middle aged by Kaioshin standards, but due to him fusing with an elderly witch using the Potara Earrings, causing him to lose his youthful looks, but gain her magical powers in return. |
| 52 | ** Also the case for Great Demon King Piccolo. He looks like [[http://uploads.dragonballencyclopedia.com/e/e9/KingPiccoloOldKPS.png this when he's freed from his confinement]] and [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11122/111223444/4457652-2573670280-17534.jpg this with his youth restored]]. |
| 53 | ** Also, Pan in the SpinOff series. Though not painful on the eyes in her later age, we know how attractive her younger self looks. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 55 | ** The saddest example is the Master of Blue Pegasus Bob, who went from [[http://images.wikia.com/fairytail/images/6/6e/YoungBob.png this]], to... [[http://images.wikia.com/fairytail/images/0/04/Bob.jpg this]]. The worst part was, he was a {{Bishonen}}. Curse, cruel fate. |
| 56 | ** Makarov's a [[MiniatureSeniorCitizen short]] balding wrinkled man in his 80s, but flashbacks to his youth show he was basically a shorter version of his grandson [[{{Hunk}} Laxus]]. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/FoodWars'': Fumio Daimido, the warden of the Polar Star Dorm in Tootsuki. Compare her [[https://f.ptcdn.info/530/055/000/p255ay98u11hW2VL6Z0-o.jpg now]], to what she looked like [[https://f.ptcdn.info/530/055/000/p255btagh5tkn5A37nw-o.jpg in her flashback/foodgasm]]. |
| 58 | * [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/fma/images/e/e4/Drinking.png/revision/latest?cb=20140709135756 Younger Pinako]], Winry's [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fma/images/4/41/Pinako-old.png/revision/latest?cb=20130401164107 grandmother]], from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. We also have [[http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h246/angelpwnscarties/fullmetal/wannatapthat.png young]] [[http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h246/angelpwnscarties/fullmetal/youngfuhrer.png Fuhrer]] [[http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h246/angelpwnscarties/fullmetal/idhitthat.png Bradley]]. Though he's not at all bad-looking as an older man either. |
| 59 | * In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Tokaki and Subaru are an elderly couple that the heroes meet late in the story. They're actually two warriors of Byakko who fought several decades before; when Subaru uses her power to manipulate time, they can revert to their younger forms. |
| 60 | -->'''[[DirtyOldMan Tokaki]]''': Honey! You're so sexy! |
| 61 | * Chairwoman Morinomiya from ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'' is depicted as an exaggerated caricature of a strict, old woman. Compare her in the present to how she was when she was a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gakuenbabysitters/images/2/27/Young_Youko.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170409214910 little girl]]. |
| 62 | * ''Literature/{{Gate}}'': Mimoza was once a student and traveling companion to the immortal Rory Mercury about 50 years ago. When the two meet again in the present, Rory doesn't recognize her, and when she figures it out, the two share a laugh about how old Mimoza had gotten while Rory stayed young. Mimoza's younger self is shown in a few flashbacks in the manga. |
| 63 | * Otose, the landlady from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', is a perfect example. |
| 64 | ** Another perfect example is Umibozu, Kagura's father. Back in his young days, he was really attractive compared to now. |
| 65 | ** And there is [[spoiler: Jirocho]]. Despite not being a straight example since he is still attractive, he was even more in the past. |
| 66 | * In ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' the elderly [[spoiler:Klaus was apparently a {{bishonen}} when he was younger, as shown in a photo in chapter 270.]] Hayate is so stunned that he first attributes it to extreme ArtEvolution. |
| 67 | * ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' has Kaoruko, as shown via flashbacks in episode 27 and [[spoiler:her becoming Cure Flower once again in episode 44]]. |
| 68 | * ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Walter C Dornez, Sir Integra Hellsing's [[BattleButler butler]], as revealed in ''The Dawn'', was quite the {{bish|onen}}ie [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys badboy]] back during the Second World War. [[spoiler:He gets his looks and youth back after he joins Millennium and becomes a vampire.]] Though, this example, InUniverse at least, could be considered an inversion because the only person who ever comments on his looks is Alucard, who claims that he was much more beautiful as an aged man.[[note]]The reason being that Alucard envies mortals who can experience the whole of life and that he sees eternal youth as more of a curse. So he found Walter more beautiful in the spiritual and metaphorical sense, as he has no interest in the physical. In this sense, seeing Walter return to his youth through artificial means was the ugliest form of betrayal.[[/note]] |
| 69 | * ''Manga/HenkyouNoRoukishiBardLoen'': The "Witch" temporarly shows her younger appearance in a {{Stripperiffic}} shaman dress while burning parasitic plants. |
| 70 | * In ''Manga/InuYasha'', Jinenji's [[NeverMessWithGranny old yet still badass]] [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/inuyasha/images/a/a8/Jineji%27s_Mother.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121012072118 mother]] was shown in flashbacks to have been quite a cutie by the time [[RescueRomance she met]] [[http://inuyasha.wikia.com/wiki/File:Jinenjis_mother.jpg Jinenji's dad]]. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': Shirogane's father like a taller version of [[{{Bishonen}} his son]] in the past; either the years caught up to him or losing his job and his wife running away took its toll on the man, maybe a combination of the two. |
| 72 | * The third manga special in ''Manga/{{Karin}}'' shows the titular vampire's parents when they first met. Carrera was ''[[{{Moe}} damn]]'' cute, and Henry was much better-looking, also--but perhaps even more so than Henry was his father, James, who was very handsome. (Although as of that point, James's only appearance had him dried up and dead, so anything would've been better than that.) |
| 73 | * Kensei Ma of ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' is a good case. Kenichi's reaction to seeing a picture of a 17-year old Kensei says more than enough. |
| 74 | * So is Michiko Menezes from ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin''. Unfortunately, not only her looks changed for the worse. |
| 75 | * Miss Maria Graceburt from ''Anime/MyOtome''. And she reverts to that youthful look of hers whenever she activates her Otome powers, much to everyone's shock and Maria's annoyance. |
| 76 | -->"How pitiful. I put great effort into aging gracefully only to have to appear in this form again?" |
| 77 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 78 | ** [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150129220149/naruto/images/9/9f/Koharu_Utatane.png Koharu Utatane]] is one of the elders of Konoha. Here's a pic of her in her [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Young_Koharu.png youth]]. |
| 79 | ** The [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/8/83/Danz%C5%8D_Shimura.png/revision/latest?cb=20160122153846 same]] can be said about [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:A_Young_Danzo.png Danzo]]. |
| 80 | ** The Third Hokage himself was [[http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/035/6/9/Young_Danzo_and_Sarutobi_by_AkatsukiChibiness.jpg nothing]] to be ashamed of. |
| 81 | ** Nagato was a bit of a {{Bishonen}} before [[spoiler: he overused his powers and rapidly aged himself]]. |
| 82 | ** [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120205205334/naruto/images/8/8d/Mito_and_Kyubi.png Mito]], wife of Hashirama Senju (Shodai Hokage), was an incredible beauty who clearly passed on her good looks to her granddaughter, Tsunade. [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120205223930/naruto/images/3/37/Mito_and_Kushina.png Not that she aged all that poorly,]] but still. |
| 83 | ** Tsunade herself would count were it not for the [[VainSorceress transformation technique]] that keeps her looking like she's in her late twenties/early thirties at all times. Without it, she apparently looks even older than she really is (we only ever see a badly wrinkled arm) thanks to her [[CastFromLifespan Creation Rebirth]] technique. For the record, her actual age is early-mid 50s. |
| 84 | ** Orichimaru also counts as he was quite the bishonen when he was younger. |
| 85 | * In ''Manga/{{Nobunagun}}'', the elderly Commander of Dogoo used to be a very cute girl. In a heartwarming moment, the immortal and ageless St. Germain, who constantly hit on her when she was young, says he still sees her as that cute girl when he ran into her again after she had become old. |
| 86 | * Nurarihyon from ''Manga/NuraRiseOfTheYokaiClan'' went from [[https://kintetsu.deviantart.com/art/Young-Nurarihyon-SennenMakyo-3-244688262 this]] to [[http://nurarihyonnomago.wikia.com/wiki/Nurarihyon that]] |
| 87 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 88 | ** Whitebeard was shown to be quite good-looking when he was younger. Age and illness caught up to him. |
| 89 | ** You would have never guessed, but [[{{Gonk}} Kokoro]] used to be [[http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131128045043/onepiece/images/7/75/Kokoro_as_a_Young_Mermaid.png HOT]] (WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS) when she was younger. Yes, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Koroko_8790.jpg this Kokoro]]. |
| 90 | ** Several high-ranking marines, as seen in the color spread of Chapter 691. Examples include Tsuru, Sengoku, and Garp. [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121209111260/onepiece/images/a/a2/Chapter_691.jpg See it for yourself]]. |
| 91 | ** Some of the senior members of the Donquixote Family were like this, but for some reason or another, they began to let themselves go. The biggest example is Señor Pink: this massive FatBastard [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/8/88/Senor_Pink_Full_Body.png/revision/latest?cb=20151129194332 in baby clothes]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/e6/Senor_Pink_at_Age_30.png/revision/latest?cb=20150712150244 once was VERY]] TallDarkAndHandsome [[spoiler: but he "let go" after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring his son died]] and his wife [[TheOphelia lost it]].]] |
| 92 | ** Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin definitely didn't age too well in the last twenty years, as [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/e/eb/Charlotte_Linlin_at_Age_28.png/revision/latest?cb=20170803200558 she was quite pretty at 28]] and even at 48 [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/4/4f/Charlotte_Linlin_at_Age_48.png/revision/latest?cb=20170803200543 she didn't look bad at all]], but at her current age of 68, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/d/d8/Charlotte_Linlin_Anime_Infobox.png/revision/latest?cb=20171203202348 the endless candy binges have clearly gotten to her]]. |
| 93 | ** Mother Carmel looked gorgeous when she was still a Sister and 43 years old, but changed drastically when she got older in the next 38 years. |
| 94 | ** Downplayed, but Boa Marigold used to be as sexy as her big sister Hancock when they were teens. Nowadays, Hancock is the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, whilst Marigold [[BrawnHilda is a giant round-bellied no-necked muscular hulk as wide as she is tall]]. |
| 95 | ** [[{{Ninja}} Shinobu]] used to be a feared member of the Oniwabanshu known for her beauty and technique. Now she's an ugly middle-aged woman whose skills as a ninja are questionable at best. [[BerserkButton Don't you ever mention that though]], unless you want to be the next target of her trademark [[GroinAttack Ninja Arts: Ball Crusher]]. |
| 96 | ** Buckin is a short and ugly crone, but as [[spoiler:her clone Stussy and her time as part of the [[PredecessorVillain Rocks Pirates]]]] indicate, she looked much prettier as a young woman. |
| 97 | ** Like Buckin above, Gloriosa/Elder Nyon is a short, ugly crone that was a hottie back when she was younger. |
| 98 | * In ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', the old woman who Panty Anarchy stays with during her time as a mortal shows a picture of herself as a young woman, and she looks rather similar to Panty. [[spoiler:Given that she turns out to be an actor hired by Garterbelt, the picture may be fake.]] |
| 99 | * ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': |
| 100 | ** The end of the ''Gold/Silver/Crystal'' arc shows us a younger Professor Oak. He was ''really'' buff! |
| 101 | ** Yellow's uncle's brain breaks when he sees how attractive the old Day Care Lady used to be. |
| 102 | * Sumire Ryuzaki from ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' was quite the bombshell 25 years ago. |
| 103 | * Harundo from ''Manga/{{Rabuta}}'' used to be a {{Bishonen}}, but he suffered a head injury in middle school and it made him lose his hair and caused his eyesight to deteriorate. Kurume says she prefers his current look. |
| 104 | * In ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'', Makiko Onimaru was a charming woman in her younger days. Everyone agrees she becomes she is now thanks to stress from raising her so wayward daughter, Miki. |
| 105 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': |
| 106 | ** Cologne, in her youth, essentially looked like a ''lot'' like her hot Chinese Amazon great-granddaughter, as was confirmed in an anime {{filler}} episode. (pictured [[https://ranma.fandom.com/wiki/Cologne?file=Young_Cologne_-_episode_69.png This is how she looked at age 18]], whereas [[http://ranma.wikia.com/wiki/Cologne?file=Cologne_-_OVA_1.png this is how she looks at the age of 300+]]). |
| 107 | ** Invoked but subverted with Happosai. Despite ''claiming'' that he was a hot blonde {{bishonen}} warrior in his youth, Cologne (who knew him then) reveals that the only difference between then and now is that he had fewer wrinkles and more hair. |
| 108 | ** WordOfGod is that Genma was handsome once too, explaining how he [[UglyGuyHotWife married someone as attractive as Nodoka]]. |
| 109 | ** The old and wrinkly Harumaki and [[spoiler:the equally old and wrinkly Gyouko]] insist that [[GenderBender female]] Ranma looks just like the young Gyouko. Ranma does not take the news well. |
| 110 | ** Dr. Tofu's mother as well. In the flashback, she was as cute as the series' other young girls, and perhaps somewhat taller than she is [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens in her old age]]. |
| 111 | * Touhou Fuhai of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire''. Or so he says. [[spoiler: The end of Season 2, Chapter 36 proves it.]] |
| 112 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': |
| 113 | ** OldMaster Dohko was [[http://www.pobladores.com/data/pobladores.com/jp/ey/jpeyote/channels/saint_seiya_lycos/images/3691799dohko4.jpg incredibly hot]] when young. [[spoiler: In a subversion, his old form is actually a SleepModeSize, which he can discard [[LetsGetDangerous when it's time to get serious and fight at full strength]]. Dohko ''is still hot''.]] |
| 114 | ** Dohko was gorgeous when he was younger. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GoldSaint-Douko.jpg Here's some more proof!]] |
| 115 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'': |
| 116 | ** Mosquito from around 400 years ago, was actually quite handsome. [[TallDarkAndSnarky And taller. And much more sociopathic]]. |
| 117 | ** Sid tells Liz at one point that he used to be quite handsome (not when he was younger so much as when he was ''alive'' - he is/was likely in his 30s or so). She is unconvinced. ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'' shows that he wasn't exaggerating. |
| 118 | * In ''Anime/SummerWars'', Sakae Jinnouchi is eighty-nine years old with gray hair, wrinkles, and missing a few teeth. During a montage of her rallying people over the phone to combat Love Machine's online rampage, the camera lingers on a black-and-white photo of Sakae in her youth, showing her to be a truly beautiful woman with the same fire in her eyes [[NeverMessWithGranny she still has now.]] |
| 119 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': |
| 120 | ** Tenchi's father Noboyuki in ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' is shown to be so attractive in his youth that Ryoko is even smitten with him when the cast goes back in time for the movie ''Tenchi In Love.'' |
| 121 | ** Katsuhito, Tenchi's grandfather in several incarnations of the meta-series, was handsome when young. In ''Universe'' and the original OVA series, he is actually Ayeka's brother Yosho, a handsome Jurai nobleman who got stranded on Earth. He's been on earth long enough to age rather dramatically. [[spoiler: Though this is a ruse in the OVA series and he is actually ''still'' just as youthful as ever.]] |
| 122 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Lord Genome back when he was young. He looks [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LordGenomeKid.jpg identical]] to his [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/niacuthair.jpg daughter Nia]] - a far cry from what he looks like [[http://www.gurren-lagann.net/chara/images/lordgenome.gif when he's older]]. |
| 123 | * ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' |
| 124 | ** Honegawa-sensei getting hit with de-aging alien skunk spray.[[http://toloveru.wikia.com/wiki/Honekawa?file=Honekawa_bachelor.png This]] happens. |
| 125 | ** From the same series, Lala's father Gid. Once TallDarkAndHandsome, now an UglyCute and BadassAdorable chibi version of himself after expending a great deal of power. |
| 126 | * In the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' original series and manga, some flashbacks to [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sugoroku_muto_9963.png Solomon/Sugurokou Mutou's past]] show that [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mw_001_suguroku_gets_the_puzzle.jpg he was quite the fox]] when younger, this even continues [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gambler_sugoroku.png into his 50s]]. |
| 127 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Kagemaru is an extremely elderly DarkLordOnLifeSupport. When he uses a ritual to restore his youth, he becomes a handsome, long-haired, and ''incredibly'' buff man. |
| 128 | * Genkai from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''. Conclusively proven due to her ultimate technique having the side effect of temporarily shifting her back to her younger state. |
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| 131 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 132 | * In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', it's a recurring piece of lore that Big M. was quite the dashing fellow in the past, but that changed when Doctor H. hit him with elevator doors... repeatedly... turning him into a {{gonk}} whose face makes anybody vomit on the spot when they see it. Big M.'s assistant Little M. didn't turn out too badly in a similar incident, but still looked far handsomer before Doctor H. ruined it for him too. |
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| 135 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 136 | * In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] is one of these -- unusual in that we normally see her in her younger incarnation. |
| 137 | * In ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'', the Italian hero Legionary was [[FormerlyFit a dashing man with the build of a Greek god in his prime]], capable of pole-vaulting into battle on a pike and considered quite a sex symbol in his homeland. However, the years were not kind to him: after he lost control of his city to one of his villains, he [[DrowningMySorrows took to comfort food]] and let himself go. By the present day, he's fat, ill-groomed, and wearing [[CivvieSpandex his old cape and helmet over jeans and a slogan T-shirt]], trying to project an image of [[BigFun a party animal]] that nobody really believes. That said, he does ultimately manage to die a hero, withstanding multiple stab wounds to the back and delivering a haymaker to his killer before leaving behind a DyingClue. |
| 138 | * ''ComicBook/TheBestWeCouldDo'': Thi's mother was beautiful when she was younger, but by the time Thi was old enough to understand what good looks were, the stress of motherhood, war, and immigration had run her mother ragged. |
| 139 | * As revealed in the flashback sequences, Gran'ma Ben of ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' was definitely quite the looker. Also a gender-flipped version if you compare Lucius Down's one appearance in the flashbacks to his present appearance. Briar, Gran'ma Ben's undead sister, is a particularly extreme example. |
| 140 | * The ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' comics reveal that Dracula was actually an elderly man when he became a vampire but uses a magical illusion to make everyone perceive him as his attractive younger self. |
| 141 | * After three volumes, readers of ''ComicBook/CourtneyCrumrinAndTheNightThings'' were well used to Great-Uncle Aloysius looking like [[http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/278/54406301.png this]]. Then came the short story "Portrait of the Warlock as A Young Man", from Aloysius' days during either the twenties or the forties. ''[[http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8176/96198159.png Hot damn.]]'' |
| 142 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Totenkinder.png Frau Totenkinder]] from ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' used to look like [[http://www.comicvine.com/frau-totenkinder/29-5973/all-images/108-206067/photo1/105-962007/ this]]. She is also one of the few people who willingly gave up being quite the looker because she eventually got fed up with the physical urges that came with being young. |
| 143 | * H'el from ''ComicBook/HelOnEarth'' wasn't always a scarred, grey-skinned, [[BlackEyesOfEvil black-eyed]] man. Flashbacks and a hologram show how he used to look like back on Krypton when he was quite handsome. |
| 144 | * Granny Goodness of the ''ComicBook/NewGods'' [[http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/lammal412/Goodness2.jpg then]] and [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/GrannyGoodness01.jpg now...]] |
| 145 | * ''ComicBook/{{Reborn}}'': Bonnie Black is a very aged old woman who is nearly 80 at the start of the series. After dying and reincarnating in a fantasy realm in the afterlife, she rejuvenates to her 25-year-old self which is a tall, curvaceous blonde woman in a white catsuit. |
| 146 | * ''ComicBook/SinCity'': "[[SerialKiller That Yellow Bastard]]", AKA Roarke Junior, was once a rich, handsome playboy (as well as a sadistic, murdering pedophile), until John Hartigan chased him down, [[CripplingCastration shot him in the crotch]], blew off his ear and right hand, and beat him into a coma. His father, the evil, corrupt Senator Roarke, used his money and influence to have Junior's body and genitals restored using advanced new medical techniques. They worked, but also transformed Junior into a foul-smelling, severely jaundiced {{Gonk}} who is now as monstrous on the outside as he always was on the inside. |
| 147 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' - Aunt May Parker was [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/849923.html cute at sixteen]]. Judging what Uncle Ben looks like in the same pic, he was quite the tall glass of sexy, something that May herself pointed out when she first saw him. |
| 148 | * Emperor Palpatine when he becomes reborn in a younger, fitter clone body in ''Franchise/StarWars: ComicBook/DarkEmpire''. |
| 149 | * ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': The resurrection of Captain America was a big hit on Gail's pride, who asked him not to see her. He knew her back when she was young and beautiful, and now she's old and ugly. She dropped it in time, and eventually the three of them hung out as friends. |
| 150 | %%* Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre 1 from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. |
| 151 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': Derinoe used to be young and beautiful just like the other Amazons, but had her youth taken from her by one of Hecate's assassins. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 155 | * ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'': [[http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7515/agentgran.png Edna O'Malley]], now usually known as "Gran," relays to Juliette the story of how she and Juliette's father met during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. A young Edie Ernst was a USO performer, later OSS agent, and genuine bundle of hotness. She once reminisced about "that thing I had going with General Patton," causing her daughter to comment, "There's so much about the North Africa campaign I just don't want to know." |
| 156 | * Calvin's mom from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. In [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/11/09/ this strip]], Calvin finds an old prom picture and asks his dad that who's that "bimbo" next to him. She turns out to be his mother. Given that Calvin then comments on the "funky hairdo", this could also overlap with IWasQuiteAFashionVictim. |
| 157 | ** Then again, although she's a plain, conservatively-dressed homemaker, she's still not a bad-looking woman (well, as far as cartoon women drawn by Bill Watterson are concerned), is still slim with brown hair. She's may have lost the "glam" but she's still a cute young-ish woman. |
| 158 | * In ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS'', Mr. Wilson is showing Dennis an old photo of himself, and Dennis can't believe that it's him because he's skinny and has hair. |
| 159 | * ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'': One storyline revolved around Abner falling in love with a woman solely based on a photo of her knees from an old soap ad, and spent weeks trying to track her down. He eventually discovers both a full version of the original ad, showing her to be gorgeous, as well as her present-day self, which is a homely, middle-aged cleaning lady. Abner was still hoping to marry her... until he found out she had ruined her knees after a lifetime of scrubbing floors. |
| 160 | [[/folder]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 163 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13198950/29/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-8 Alliance of Amazons and Izuku]]'': Recovery Girl is de-aged back to her twenties, revealing she used to be a [[StatuesqueStunner seven-foot-tall blonde bombshell]]. |
| 164 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': |
| 165 | ** Minerva [=McGonagall=] is a stern and elderly witch. She also used to be a HeadTurningBeauty so striking that Bucky Barnes, her wartime beau, actually walked into a wall when he first saw her. |
| 166 | ** The First Class of X-Men play with this, thanks to all of them having undergone a somewhat mysterious de-aging incident involving an island by the name of Krakoa about a decade or so prior to the start of the story. As a result, a group in their 50s and 60s now look like they're in their early 30s or 40s. However, Magneto and Professor Xavier still qualify - while Magneto is still very "handsome in an older guy sort of way" to quote Carol, he used to be positively dashing, while Professor Xavier, now "distinguished", is still bald and no longer the downright PrettyBoy he was as a young man. |
| 167 | ** Alison Carter, Peggy's little sister, is by no means bad looking, being a statuesque and curvy blonde who's able to pass for a woman in her forties when she's just past 60, but she's also lived a very busy life and settled into comfortable middle age. [[spoiler: Actually subverted. Being the secret daughter of Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter, she's a hereditary SuperSoldier and has had to use make-up and clothing to disguise the fact that she doesn't look past her late 20s]]. |
| 168 | * ''Fanfic/FieldOfInnocence'': Iroh claims that this is the reason his late wife agreed to let him court her, naming the trope word for word. It makes Zuko and Azula laugh, but it's just {{Squick}} to Lu Ten thanks to Parental Sexuality Squick. |
| 169 | * ''Fanfic/TheFifthAct'': Implied when an adult Cloud is mistaken by his mother to be a relative of his father's [[spoiler: due to his strong resemblance to his biological father, President Shinra.]] |
| 170 | * ''Fanfic/ItachiIsThatABaby'': After being tricked into wearing a pranked outfit, Professor [=McGonagall=] is reverted back to her early twenties and turns out to have been a drop dead knockout back then. To her ire, the change is permanent because Harry thought the method to remove the outfit was a flaw and "fixed" it, therefore she's permanently in her twenties and if she doesn't want to go around in lingerie, she has to wear something "slatternly" (in her words). |
| 171 | * ''Fanfic/LimpetAU'': When the Solo twins shows Piett a holovid of Vader while he was still Anakin Skywalker, the Admiral is surprised that the horrifically scarred and bald head behind the mask used to bear a face that could invite a lover's swoon, while Jaina snarks to Jacen "and you wonder why grandma liked him?" |
| 172 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': [[https://orig00.deviantart.net/3d30/f/2017/301/3/c/agathasamgaiden_by_songbreeze741-dbrzgjv.png This cover art]] shows that [[NeverMessWithGranny Elite Four Agatha]] was quite cute as a young trainer. |
| 173 | * ''Secret Sunshine'': Ryuuko downplays and invokes this. She's not old and she didn't lose her looks, except that, due to her situation, she gained weight, which makes her self-conscious. In chapter 16, she bitterly remarks to Satsuki, "I was pretty once." and tells her that she hates looking in a mirror. |
| 174 | * ''Fanfic/SmallvilleXEvolution'': Professor Xavier shows the X-Men a photo from his younger years, back when he could walk and had a full head of hair. They are very surprised and Xavier jokes that the years have not been kind. However, Domino points out he's still very attractive for a man of his age. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 178 | * Mater from ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' appears to be a rusty, beaten-up tow truck, but whenever we see him in a flashback, he's always a shiny blue colour! |
| 179 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': While in the Land of the Dead, Héctor (at least for a skeleton) is still attractive, but in life he had a cute, gentle, dreamy but charming look. [[spoiler:His wife Imelda]] was also very attractive in life. |
| 180 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', Ms. Spink and Ms. Forcible were quite pretty back in the day, as Coraline saw in the Other World. |
| 181 | * Mad Madame Mim from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordintheStone'' appears to invoke this trope when she briefly turns into a beautiful young woman. |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'': While not elderly, Nigel is very bitter about the fact that he used to be a movie star and has lost a great deal of his attractiveness, now having messy feathers and bloodshot, bagged eyes. By the second movie he's even worse, having [[spoiler: become disabled and lost the majority of his feathers, which he wears a sweater to cover.]] |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Mother Gothel begins the film as an ugly crone, but Rapunzel's magical hair [[VainSorceress restores her looks]] showing she certainly counts for this trope. |
| 184 | * ''WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown'': Kris and Jessica. [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BN2JhM2MwMjEtNzYyMy00N2RjLWJkMTAtYmI4ZDExNmYxY2M4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzU1NzE3NTg@._V1_CR0,45,480,270_AL_UX477_CR0,0,477,268_AL_.jpg then]] and [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmM1YmM0NjItYWMzYS00MDAwLWE5YmQtNmE5MmQ2MWRlODA0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_FMjpg_UX1024_.jpg now]]. |
| 185 | * ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': [[EvilOverlord The Bog King's]] mother, Griselda claims this as her life is flashing before her eyes. |
| 186 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'': The Triplets themselves. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 190 | * ''Film/OneBR'': Edith Stanhope shows [[TheProtagonist Sarah]] a poster on her apartment from an old movie she was in. She did indeed look quite pretty back in the day. |
| 191 | * In ''Film/AnnieHall'', Alvy Singer's old aunt is noted to have been quite a looker once. |
| 192 | * ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' |
| 193 | ** Lorraine in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 first film]], as Marty discovers when he goes back in time. Once the movie is over, her ageing is softened by the effects of Marty's time-machinations. |
| 194 | ** Jennifer in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', as Jennifer and her older self run into each other in 2015. |
| 195 | * In ''Film/{{Beerfest}}'', we discover that Grandma was actually quite attractive when she came over from Germany. A very attractive whore. Erk. |
| 196 | * ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': As it turns out, WesternAnimation/PeterPan (AKA: Sweet Pete) has let himself go after being forced to quit Hollywood. Cubby even [[LampshadeHanging comments on this]]: |
| 197 | -->'''Cubby:''' ''(chipperly)'' Peter, is that really you? ''(becomes grossed out by Pete's new appearance)'' You got old.\ |
| 198 | '''Sweet Pete:''' ''(sullenly)'' Yeah, death is coming for us all, kid. |
| 199 | * In ''Film/TheCrimeDoctorsStrangestCase'', the rather plain housekeeper Miss Patricia reveals that she used to be a lead dancer at Walter Burns' nightclub and is shown in flashback to have been very attractive. |
| 200 | * Carlotta Vance in ''Film/DinnerAtEight'' is now an old fat lady but she was once a gorgeous actress who had men on the string. This is why she explicitly rejects Oliver's suggestion to go back to the stage. She wants people to remember her as beautiful, instead of old and fat. |
| 201 | --> "I was rather gorgeous, wasn't I?" |
| 202 | * ''Film/FatherFigures'': When Pete and Kyle go GeneHunting to find their real father, a RunningGag involves them [[ParentalSexualitySquick being disturbed]] that all of the father candidates say their mother Helen used to be a HeadTurningBeauty and a SexGoddess. |
| 203 | * Implied, but never explicitly stated, by Anna von Hagen in ''{{Film/Fatherland}}''. |
| 204 | * Edna Turnblad, in the 2007 film version of ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}''. On the Making of DVD extra, the wardrobe designer says that John Travolta wanted to play Edna as someone who was a real "buxom babe" in her day (hence the cinched waists, pencil skirts, and other outfits reminiscent of Sophia Loren and other voluptuous actresses of the period). After she kicks Wilbur out, Edna cries over her wedding picture, which depicts a much younger, thinner Edna. |
| 205 | * In ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'' Hannah's mother Norma was very beautiful as a young actress. Since Norma is played by Maureen O'Sullivan, it is pretty well justified. |
| 206 | * In ''Film/{{Kontroll}}'', Bela (a fat greying train driver) and Szofi are father and daughter. They have a scene together in which she tells him "You remind me of an angel," and he replies "You should have seen me in my prime!" They laugh. |
| 207 | %%* ''Film/TheLeechWoman''. Good ol' AppliedPhlebotinum! |
| 208 | * ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'': Yiayia shows Toula a picture of herself as a beautiful young girl. |
| 209 | * ''Film/NightsAndDays'': Barbara's elderly, bedridden mother says "I was young, pretty" and then tells a naughty story about how she used to meet boys in the attic of the barn for trysts. Once she tripped and broke a toe. |
| 210 | * ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'': |
| 211 | ** The wizened old man is shown to be quite TheCharmer in his youth. |
| 212 | ** The prequel shows that [[spoiler: the Wicked Witch of the West]] was once a beautiful young woman called Theodora. She lost her beauty as a result of EvilMakesYouUgly. |
| 213 | * Shows up briefly in ''Film/ThePacifier'', when Shane leafs through database for the Plummers, including a file on their wizened Bulgarian nanny, Helga. It turns out Helga used to be a Miss Bulgaria finalist back in the 1980s. |
| 214 | * In ''Film/SomewhereInTime'' the protagonist meets a very old woman who begs him "Come back to me." She gives him a lovely watch but dies that night. Later, when he sees a picture of a stunning young woman, he finds it is the old woman. So he decides to try to go back in time to meet her. |
| 215 | * In the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's ''Literature/SomethingWickedThisWayComes'', we see the character of Miss Foley: an elderly spinster schoolmarm who longs to be her young, beautiful self again. Thanks to Mr. Dark, she gets her wish and turns into the beautiful blonde that she used to be... with the added side-effect of [[spoiler:blindness so that she can never appreciate her own beauty]]. Ahhhh, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor damn it all]]! The book takes a more nuanced approach to BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: her youth is restored and her eyesight left alone -- but she's not a beautiful young woman, she's an adorable ''eight-year-old girl''... terrified, helpless, and alone having no way to convince anyone who she really is. |
| 216 | * The witches in ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' look [[WickedWitch like old crones]], but they all used to be {{Hot Witch}}es in their youth. When one of them uses the [[VainSorceress power of a star to regain her youth]], she returns to her old beautiful self. The very first thing she does is [[DressHitsFloor take off her dress]] and stand naked (with ShouldersUpNudity) in front of a mirror so she can [[ShowingOffTheNewBody admire her newly rejuvenated body]], even [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy winking flirtatiously at herself]]. Her sisters, still old, are caught between looking on in envious awe and rolling their eyes. |
| 217 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 218 | ** Darth Vader (as Anakin Skywalker), Obi-Wan Kenobi, Uncle Owen, and Aunt Beru are all shown to be this in the prequels; the latter three just had their age (and Tatooine's incredibly harsh climate) catch up to them, while the former-most obviously doesn't look so good after [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith being maimed and burned alive on Mustafar]]. |
| 219 | ** By the time of Saw Gerrera's last ([[AnachronicOrder chronological]]) appearance in ''Film/RogueOne'', he's a complete wreck. He isn't outright ''ugly'', but years of living [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized a squalid, violent lifestyle as a revolutionary]] have definitely left their mark; his hair is a mess, his beard is scraggly and unshaven, he's [[AnArmAndALeg lost both his legs]], has to lug a respirator around all the time, is covered in wrinkles and his deep, masculine voice has become a hoarse wheeze. Go back to his chronologically earlier appearances (such as ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Fallen Order]]''), and it's almost hard to believe it's the same guy. |
| 220 | ** Luke, Leia, and Han have also become this by the time of ''Film/TheForceAwakens''; while none of them is by any means bad looking, none of them are the bright and fresh lookers they were in the original trilogy, either. |
| 221 | * Rose [=DeWitt=] Bukater/Dawson in James Cameron's ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''. When her granddaughter asks if a drawing is really of her, Rose responds with "Wasn't I a dish?". The line was originally "Wasn't I a hot number?" but [[CoolOldLady Gloria Stuart]] changed it because she thought it implied promiscuity. |
| 222 | * Jane Hudson from ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'' whose angelic good looks were whittled away over the years by a combination of alcohol and depression. Her sister Blanche has also aged but looks relatively healthy. |
| 223 | * In the fantasy movie ''Film/{{Willow}}'', the sorceress Fin Raziel claimed that she was a young and attractive woman before she was turned into a ferret by the Witch Bavmorda. The roguish hero Madmartigan therefore really wants to see her true form. Sadly, she had spent a long, long time in animal form, and when changed back to human, she found herself to now be a hag. |
| 224 | * TheProtagonist's reaction in ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' upon seeing his younger self: "Oh my God! I'm so cute!" |
| 225 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 226 | ** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': |
| 227 | *** Charles Xavier was [[PrettyBoy boyishly beautiful]] during his youth with thick, wavy hair (not that he looks bad as a [[SilverFox bald, older gentleman]]). |
| 228 | *** Erik Lehnsherr was a classic example of TallDarkAndHandsome when he was a young man (and he has [[SilverFox aged gracefully over the years]]). |
| 229 | *** Hank [=McCoy=] used to be a dorky PrettyBoy before his Beast transformation. |
| 230 | ** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Major William Stryker was a {{Hunk}} in 1973. |
| 231 | ** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Nightcrawler was an elfin [[PrettyBoy cutie pie]] during his adolescence. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 235 | * In Creator/AgathaChristie's novel, ''Literature/TheABCMurders'', when Poirot and Hastings see the dead body of the first victim, Alice Ascher an elderly storekeeper, Poirot notes that she must have been beautiful when she was young. Hastings doubts it, but later, when they find her wedding photo, he sees that Poirot was right. |
| 236 | * In Lois Lowry's ''Literature/AnastasiaKrupnik'' books, the young-teenage heroine swoons over Gregory Peck, only to discover that the movies she's been watching are decades old. |
| 237 | * In ''Literature/BalletShoes'' Theo Dane acts as if she's an OldMaid and goes on about how beautiful she used to look - when she's only in her thirties and looks very good. |
| 238 | * In ''Literature/TheBridgeKingdomArchives'' Nana, [[TheProtagonist king Aren]]'s grandmother once tells Lara that as a young woman she was a spy and was taken into Lara's grandfather's [[RoyalHarem harem]]. Lara is astonished since only the most beautiful women make it into the harem, to which Nana answers that she didn't always look like "the last prune left in a bowl". |
| 239 | * In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin is told that he's quite a looker. (Which surprises him, as he doesn't often talk to women who aren't family). Later, the reader learns that Jerin looks very much like his grandfather. He remembers the kindly old man fondly, and sometimes wonders how his grandfather managed to wrap the [[ExoticExtendedMarriage grandmothers]] around his little fingers, being such a soft-spoken, gentleman. He [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful finds out.]] |
| 240 | * In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's novel ''Literature/CitizenOfTheGalaxy'' Grandmother, the wizened matriarch of the Free Trader ''Sisu's'' family-clan crew, describes herself this way when talking about the upcoming Great Gathering. |
| 241 | -->I was a pert young thing, with a tiny foot and a saucy nose, and my Grandmother got offers for me from throughout the People. |
| 242 | * ''Literature/TheColdMoons'': Buckwheat used to be deemed quite a handsome badger by [[ChickMagnet several sows]]. While his wife still admires him, he's starting to show his age. |
| 243 | * As stated above, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, in Neil Gaiman's book ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'', former music-hall artists, now elderly and swathed in cardigans. |
| 244 | * One chapter of Creator/RayBradbury's ''Literature/DandelionWine'' had a man fall in love with a beautiful girl by her photo alone, only to find out that the photo was taken a long time ago and that the girl is now an old woman. When the old woman learns of this after the two of them strike up quite a rapport, she tells him that they could probably have started a romantic relationship if not for their vastly disparate ages. |
| 245 | * In Creator/JohnDicksonCarr's mystery ''Literature/TheDemoniacs'', the hero's girlfriend discovers that a certain very decrepit old-looking woman is younger than she looks -- and might be her long-lost mother. The girl is quite upset by the possibility that she might come to resemble this hag. |
| 246 | * The ancient Starwife in Creator/RobinJarvis' ''Literature/DeptfordMice'' trilogy recalls the time when she first ascended to the throne as a young black squirrel maiden. |
| 247 | -->Memories of the past came unbidden to her and she remembered a certain night when the stars were like beautiful fiery flowers and their light fell brightly onto her lovely, young face. |
| 248 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' |
| 249 | ** Vena the Raven-Haired was essentially a brunette version of Red Sonja as a young woman. Now, she's an elderly grandmother who can nevertheless [[MuggedForDisguise mug a freaking Valkyrie for a disguise]]. |
| 250 | ** Gytha Ogg (before she was simply "Nanny") as well. She was the subject for Leonard of Quirm's legendary 'Mona Ogg' (the teeth follow you around the room), being considered a fair candidate for the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman, and official art backs this up. certainly had [[ReallyGetsAround an active love life]]... |
| 251 | *** Granny Weatherwax also, although she was "handsome" or "striking" rather than "beautiful". Even in the current stories' time she's not the stereotypical ugly old witch, having good teeth, good posture, and an average-size nose (much to her annoyance) - indeed, there's some argument that she might actually have improved with age. Certainly, even in her 70s, she has literally flawless hair and feet despite what can only be called a minimal beauty regime, and when she gets dressed up in ''{{Literature/Maskerade}}'', the owner of the Opera House (who, thanks to Nanny's mischief, thinks Granny is a retired courtesan) remarks, impressed, that he can certainly see how she earned her money. |
| 252 | ** And Topsy Lavish (nee Turvy) from ''Literature/MakingMoney''. She was a music hall girl before becoming Mr Lavish's mistress, then wife, and finally, widow. |
| 253 | ** Mrs. Whitlow, who thanks to a bit of a time blip in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' was revealed to have once been a complete knockout. |
| 254 | * In Bram Stoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', the count invokes this trope to an extent. He at first appears decrepit and elderly, but he soon gorges himself on blood and appears youthful and perhaps even handsome, though since most of the novel is written from the protagonist's perspective, he is described with less loving terms at times. |
| 255 | * ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': In ''The Mammoth Hunters'', Mamut states Crozie was "a {{proud beauty}} in her youth" but she's now more weathered-looking due to her advanced age, and suffers from associated aches and pains. She’s quite prideful over this, with Ayla trying to find ways to provide her with medicine and beauty treatments that wouldn't bruise her ego. Crozie tries not to show it, but she's very appreciative of this. |
| 256 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 257 | ** The BigBad Voldemort, whose use of [[SoulJar Horcruxes]] turned him into an ugly, [[TheNoseless noseless]] vermin. In his younger days he was TallDarkAndHandsome, features he inherited from his highborn Muggle father. |
| 258 | ** Grindelwald was shown to be a very handsome blond when he was younger, yet by the time of the present he has become a gaunt toothless old man. |
| 259 | ** Anyone who's been to [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]], such as Sirius Black or Bellatrix Lestrange, will presumably suffer from this as their health and appearance deteriorate. In the movies, though, these characters suffer from AdaptationalAttractiveness even after their stints in Azkaban. In Sirius' case, it varies based on his health at the time, though he's still considered fairly handsome and his good looks as a young man shine through WhenHeSmiles. |
| 260 | * Sophie in ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'' suddenly experiences the transition from beautiful youth to leathery age when she is put under a spell.[[note]]Not being aware of her own beauty in the first place reduces the sting. Other characters thought she was BeautifulAllAlong.[[/note]] |
| 261 | * ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': When watching the video of his Game, Katniss is surprised at how handsome Haymitch used to be. And while her mother is implied to still be quite attractive, Katniss is also surprised by how beautiful she was as a teenager. Also implied a bit when [[spoiler: Katniss' prep team sees her for the first time after her burn injury.]] |
| 262 | * In the ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' series, Niobe Kaftan was considered [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman the most beautiful woman of her generation]]. In her middle age, she let herself go because she lost her second husband and no longer cared about her looks. When she becomes an Incarnation of Fate, she chooses not to regain her old looks even though she can at any time. One of the only times she regains her old looks is when she gets seduced by [[CoolOldGuy Nicolai]]. The elderly Nicolai says that when he was young, he could very easily imitate a woman and [[WholesomeCrossdresser seduce all the men around him]]. |
| 263 | * Creator/JRRTolkien uses this in regards to his main villains: |
| 264 | ** Melkor, [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels greatest of]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the Ainur]] in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', is at first capable of assuming any physical form he likes and often appears beautiful, especially when he wants to deceive people. He gradually exhausts his spiritual power and is left [[ShapeShifterModeLock stuck]] in his "terrible" dark lord form. |
| 265 | ** Sauron, BigBad of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', is a lesser Ainu who had the same abilities until he poured most of his power into the One Ring and then lost his body in the downfall of Númenor. His next body was "black and hideous, and his power thereafter was through terror alone." |
| 266 | * In ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'', TheMentor Taeris bears many horrible scars on his face but is often described as being quite handsome before receiving them. |
| 267 | * In Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/LoveAndFreindship'', [[ParodySue the narrator]] admits her beauty has faded. |
| 268 | -->''Tho' my Charms are now considerably softened and somewhat impaired by the Misfortunes I have undergone, I was once beautiful.'' |
| 269 | * In Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez's ''Of love and other demons'', Sierva Maria's [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] mother Bernarda used to be a might beauty. But after giving birth ''and'' becoming a slave trader, she became a [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]. |
| 270 | %%* Amanda Jennings (Mrs. Jennings) in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's novella ''Literature/MagicInc''. |
| 271 | * In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', Paul is looking through Annie's scrapbook and comes across a picture of her when she was young, and notes that she was startlingly pretty. |
| 272 | * In ''Literature/MurderAtDrumshee'' we hear about Gabor's previous marriage to Eithne and Mahon is shocked when he finally meets her. She is described as squat, sharp-featured, and slightly overweight with dull mousy hair - he wonders how any man could have been attracted to her. Then at one point during the trial, her expression changes and the narration says "and he could suddenly see remnants of beauty in this drab, middle-aged woman". |
| 273 | * L&L Red from ''Literature/NoBeastSoFierce'' was handsome enough to be TheCasanova in the past, but years of using heroin has left him a withered, frail shell of his former self. |
| 274 | * ''Creator/JohnRingo'' invokes this with Mother Lenka in ''Literature/PaladinOfShadows''. She is an ancient withered crone now, but with a very sharp tongue, and lots of hints of her earlier days. Great beauty is only part of it: there are clear references to her being in Stalingrad during WWII. |
| 275 | * [[TheDitz Mrs. Bennet]] in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' was apparently a beauty in her youth. Unfortunately for Mr. Bennet, he married her for shallow reasons as such. |
| 276 | * Joe Keenan's farcical novel ''Literature/PuttingOnTheRitz'' includes a scene in an elevator where a gossipy society dowager--in the midst of whispering ''very loudly'' to her young friends, the protagonists, about the doyenne they're about the meet--rhapsodizes about the good old days and invokes this trope almost word for word. One of the passengers in the back drolly fluffs some imaginary curls as she goes on, almost setting the protagonists giggling, but the dowager remains serenely and volubly oblivious. |
| 277 | * ''Literature/RuslanAndLudmila'': Naina, an ugly old woman, used to be famous for her beauty. However, she doesn't seem to regret its loss too much, as she now has her magic powers instead. |
| 278 | * {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan''. Lady Evanna was born looking like a wolf-human hybrid but can sometimes change her appearance to look like a beautiful woman. She notes that she chooses the uglier form as her default look because it was how she was born. |
| 279 | * In one of the ''Literature/SammyKeyes'' books, Sammy finds an old picture of her cranky neighbor Mrs. Graybill, who was apparently quite pretty fifty years ago. |
| 280 | * ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'': |
| 281 | ** Many Elders were beautiful before they underwent the change and became human-monster hybrids. Someone says of Areop-Enap "the change was particularly cruel to her" and she's now a GiantSpider. |
| 282 | ** Coatlicue the Archon was once agelessly beautiful, but performed numerous experiments on herself and transformed into a monster. Josh is lucky that when Dee summons her, he hypnotizes him so that he only sees her beautiful form. |
| 283 | ** Tsagaglalal and the Witch of Endor appear as elderly women but can take on a younger form if they wish. |
| 284 | * In ''Literature/SirenaSelena'', drag mother Martha Divine lets her "daughter" Sirena know how stunning she herself was in her youth. |
| 285 | * In the ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Literature/ServantsOfTheEmpire'' books, there's an elderly poet named Holshef who, when he was sixteen, was tall and strong, with a rakish black mustache. |
| 286 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 287 | ** The morbidly obese merchant prince Illyrio Mopatis reveals that the sculpture of the beautiful young bravo in his courtyard was ''him'' at the age of 16. |
| 288 | ** King Robert Baratheon was renowned as a TallDarkAndHandsome heroic figure who captured the hearts of many young women. However, by the time we meet him in the present day, he has few of these traits left, with VictoryIsBoring and LonelyAtTheTop being such that [[DrowningMySorrows drinking]], [[ComfortFood feasting]], and [[ReallyGetsAround screwing the near-endless supply of prostitutes provided to him]] is pretty much all he does in lieu of taking care of himself, resulting in his descent into a [[AdiposeRex fat]] JadedWashout. His bastard son Gendry [[StrongFamilyResemblance resembles Robert as a youth]], which causes many of Robert's old acquaintances to do a double-take when they meet him. |
| 289 | ** Seeing as the Great Houses of Westeros all seem to have [[TheBeautifulElite really good genes]], several nobles that aren't described as attractive are this. Catelyn remembers her sister Lysa as a pretty girl before she let herself go. |
| 290 | ** House Lannister has a precedent of this if Cersei has bothered to pay attention. Her CoolAunt, Genna thank-the-gods-I'm-not-a-natural-Frey, was renowned as being the [[UglyGuyHotWife gracefully Hot Wife in her badly lopsided arranged marriage]] before she "mellowed" into her IronLady, LargeAndInCharge, BigBeautifulWoman self today. Although still not exactly painful on the eyes, she's not a relatively willowy sixteen anymore -- and, proud of it! |
| 291 | *** Cersei herself is getting there. While still quite fetching, she notes during [[spoiler:her naked shame walk through King's Landing]] that her belly is covered in stretch marks from having three children, and the impact of nursing them has made her once bountiful bosom start to droop. |
| 292 | ** Many historical Targaryen kings described as ugly-looking were attractive {{hunk}}s in their youth, like Aegon IV, who degraded into an AdiposeRex later in life, and Aerys II, who became a haggard old man. In fact, it's easier to count Targaryen kings who ''weren't'' noted for their handsomeness: Aenys I (tall but weedy), Viserys I and Daeron II (both described as [[AdiposeRex pot-bellied]] even while young), Baelor I (frail and thin), Jaehaerys II (sickly and pasty-looking), and Aerys I (spindly and bookish). Aegon V inverted this; he was frail as a youth, but grew into a handsome man as an adult. |
| 293 | * In the ''Literature/TalesFromTheWyrdMuseum'' trilogy, Miss Veronica (or Verdandi) is said to have once been the most beautiful of the three [[Really700YearsOld ancient and decrepit]] [[TheWeirdSisters Nornir]] sisters. |
| 294 | * Dappletail from ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is listed in the character sheets as a "once-pretty tortoiseshell she-cat with a lovely dappled coat". |
| 295 | * In Creator/AngelaCarter's ''Literature/WiseChildren'', the protagonist and her sister are former dancers who used to have a lot of lovers, now aged; they're determined to defy this trope. When invited to a family reunion, they're nervous about going, fearing that people will pity the decay of their looks; but they dress up showily in a manner that emphasizes their best points (legs last well) and walk in boldly, not sure if the effect is ridiculous or fabulous; some reactions, at least, prove that the latter is the case. |
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| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 299 | * On ''Series/TwoTwoSeven'' Pearl is the old lady who always sits at her window talking to her neighbors sitting on the stoop. One episode flashes back to the forties when she was young and hot. |
| 300 | * ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Not that Jack Donaghy is all that old or unattractive, but when he shows Liz Lemon a picture of himself at age 25, she tells him he used to have a chest like Franchise/{{Superman}} and asks to keep the picture. |
| 301 | * Mary Albright in ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''. One episode reveals she once posed nude in her youth. A jealous Dick tracks down the pictures and is about to destroy them when he sees how good she looks. Mary is horrified and refuses to look at the pictures until Dick pushes one in front of her. She quickly goes from protests to, well... |
| 302 | -->'''Mary:''' Boy, I was a hottie wasn't I? |
| 303 | * ''Series/AwkwafinaIsNoraFromQueens'' portrays Nora's grandparents as a StatuesqueStunner and a MrFanservice when Nora's grandma flashes back to their first meeting. Nora can't believe that they ever looked so hot until Grandma shares their wedding photo. |
| 304 | * A poignant bit in ''Series/BarneyMiller'' when an older woman insisted that a local art gallery had "smut in the window". The smut in question turned out to be a tasteful nude portrait of herself in younger days. She'd been lovers with the now-dead artist, and the picture was a private endearment, never meant for exhibition. |
| 305 | %%** Similar plots cropped up in ''Series/BostonLegal'' (with Shirley Schmidt) and ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' (with JustForFun/JohnMunch, of all people). |
| 306 | * Howard's mother, Mrs. Wolowitz from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' never appears on-screen, but she's described as an [[FatSlob overweight woman with facial hair]]. She told Sheldon tearfully that she was quite a looker when she was young as men would wait in line showering her with gifts of candy (which she ate). Additionally, it's implied several times that menopause has been ''really'' hard on her; that would explain the facial hair, and at least one episode has her using estrogen cream. |
| 307 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' reveals that the now overweight and out of shape [[ThoseTwoGuys Hitchcock and Scully]] were quite attractive in the 80s, to the point where Jake asks Boyle which one is more bang-able. |
| 308 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Invoked in "Band Candy", where cursed candy bars causes the adults of Sunnydale to regress into their younger selves - including Giles and Buffy's mother Joyce. While both were still attractive in middle-age, the candy causes them to embrace their FormerTeenRebel personalities, especially Giles, who returns to his badboy "Ripper" days. While only implied in the episode itself, the later episode "Earshot" confirms that [[AutoErotica the two ended up having sex on the hood of a police car, twice,]] while Buffy wasn't present. |
| 309 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' |
| 310 | ** The Charmed Ones had an [[MonsterOfTheWeek enemy of the week]] who was an evil wizard. He modeled his handsome golem after himself as a young man. |
| 311 | ** Also in another episode their elderly aunt tried to get a demon to restore her youth and that of a few others. The various old people who are transformed become quite attractive 20-somethings. |
| 312 | * In ''Series/CoronationStreet'' when Fred (who is in his seventies, bald and extremely overweight) was putting his picture up online, his friend asked who the man in the black and white photo was. It turns out it was a picture of Fred from his youth and he was quite the PrettyBoy. |
| 313 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': The First Doctor claims this about himself (using almost this exact phrasing) in the novel "The Plotters" when offended that the HistoricalDomainCharacter of the Week isn't sexually interested in him. |
| 314 | ** The Lady Cassandra was definitely this, given that she's now a living trampoline. |
| 315 | ** [[spoiler:The Face of Boe]] might also be this, if the very heavily hinted truth of his origin as [[spoiler: Captain Jack Harkness]] is true. |
| 316 | * On ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Lady Grantham reminisces about her younger days, when she had just arrived from America in London, and says that she was quite attractive. |
| 317 | -->'''Cora''': I suppose I can say that now that I'm an old lady! |
| 318 | * In ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E18BasicGenealogy Basic Genealogy]]" Britta unsuccessfully attempts to invoke this to get on Troy's Grandmother good side. |
| 319 | * Susan and her mother Grace in ''Series/MyFamily'' appear to consider themselves this, but both still get plenty of male attention despite being in their 50s and 70s respectively. |
| 320 | * In an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'', Eddie's grandmother Estelle does a photo show-and-tell for his class, revealing that Grandfather's plane back in WWII was called the "Brown Bombshell." Which may have been named after her, as the next picture she shows is of herself as she was back in those days - her knock-out looks are enough to get a reaction from the rest of the boys in the class. Eddie is mortified, but Estelle waves it off ("Ah, let the boys express themselves."). |
| 321 | * Chip Gaines is good for saying this about OnceAnEpisode on ''Series/FixerUpper''. He even gets out his high school yearbook in one episode to prove it. |
| 322 | * Played for laughs on ''Series/Foundation2021'': the elderly Brother Dusk affectionately touches his younger clone Brother Dawn and tells him... not that Brother Dawn is good-looking, but that Brother Dusk himself used to be. |
| 323 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 324 | ** Similar to the source material, Robert Baratheon let himself go after becoming king, becoming jaded and lazy, while his son Gendry resembles how he used to look. |
| 325 | ** The blind, 100+-year-old Maester Aemon tells Sam that he used to be a real ladies man back in the day. When Sam finds this hard to believe, Aemon asks if Sam assumed he always looked like a wizened old man, and Sam apologizes. |
| 326 | ** Lady Olenna regales Margaery with how she seduced her future husband away from his betrothed, claiming she was "very, ''[[SexGoddess very]]'', good." This doubles as an ActorAllusion; Creator/DianaRigg is best known for her roles in the '60s as a sultry action heroine in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' and ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. |
| 327 | ** King Aegon II Targaryen. Injuries from the war messed up his, as Joffrey puts it, handsome visage. |
| 328 | * Sophia in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': It became something of a CanonDiscontinuity. In one episode, she mentioned she was a [[FieryRedhead natural redhead]], and in another she said she was "a tall, voluptuous blonde with a butt like granite." Although she's also claimed (among other things) that Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill actually held the Yalta to fight for her hand in marriage, having differing hair colors isn't the most outlandish thing she's said. While Sophia's claims are the wildest, it's implied that all the Girls were quite lovely in their younger days. |
| 329 | * Bob Duncan from ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' is at present an overweight (though he loses some weight in later seasons), balding man whom the kids enjoy to pick on about how old he is (his exact age is not clear, but he appears to be in his 40s or 50s), but when he was young, [[HairTodayGoneTomorrow he had pretty]] hair and looked similar to PJ. In one episode, PJ becomes paranoid that he'll lose his hair as well when he grows up, not helped by the fact that Bob started to lose his hair at just ''25''. |
| 330 | * In ''Series/HorribleHistories'', UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria claims she "was quite slim and attractive as a young lady". The man interviewing her is doubtful... until she produces [[http://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/1842the_young_queen_victori.jpg a picture]]. |
| 331 | * In the Creator/{{BBC}} series ''Series/IClaudius'', we see [[EvilMatriarch Augustus's wife Livia]] as a middle-aged woman, then an elderly widow, then an unbelievably old crone. But as she comments to Claudius late in life, she was quite the looker in her youth: |
| 332 | -->'''Claudius:''' The most beautiful in the world, they say.\ |
| 333 | '''Livia:''' There was one other. [[UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII But she was in Egypt]]. And besides, she didn't last as long as I have. |
| 334 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': At 69 years old, Daniel Molloy is a sickly, wrinkly, GrumpyOldMan who's slowly dying of Parkinson's disease. However, he was a PrettyBoy when he was 20 years old, and he was gorgeous enough that Louis de Pointe du Lac instantly noticed him when Daniel walked into Polynesian Mary's; Louis then swiftly began hitting on him once Daniel sat down at the bar. The bartender was aware that Daniel normally didn't carry any cash on him, so this suggests that he relied on his good looks to get men to buy him drinks. |
| 335 | * The duchess from the ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968'' episode "Lay of the Land", who was apparently the toast of Europe in her younger days. Noah mentions that she was "one of the most sought-after women of her day... sought after, and frequently caught." The episode's plot revolves around her CompromisingMemoirs. |
| 336 | * On ''Series/LALaw'', Douglas discovers his late father had a mistress who gave birth to his, Douglas's, half-brother. He goes to meet her just to see what she's all about, and coitus ensues when she shows him an old stag film she did. |
| 337 | --> "I had a beautiful body! I wasn't ashamed to show it." |
| 338 | * In a guest appearance on ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'', Creator/CarolBurnett played an aged actress and dancer. When Benson arrives at her home [[spoiler:on the night she murders her husband]], she is nostalgically watching her old films. |
| 339 | -->'''Burnett:''' See her detective? That's the girl I used to be. |
| 340 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'''s pilot episode shows the college-age Dr. Martin Stein was very attractive in his youth. White Canary even does a DoubleTake when she sees him and has no problem flirting with him - to future!Martin's annoyance. |
| 341 | * In ''Series/MadMen'', Roger Sterling's tape-recorded notes for his memoirs provide a pretty darned funny pair of these. Apparently, back in the late '40s, [[spoiler:Miss Blankenship -- now a standoffish and somewhat prudish old spinster -- was Bert Cooper's secretary, known to all in the office as the "[[CovertPervert Queen of Perversions]]." And Cooper himself? In his "sexual prime," apparently making quite a few conquests (including Miss Blankenship, it seems), before being, um, [[GroinAttack cut short]] by an unnecessary operation at the hands of a certain Dr. Lyle Evans (whom Roger believes Cooper may have had killed).]] |
| 342 | %%* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' - Al Bundy. |
| 343 | * A ''{{Series/MASH}}'' episode has Col. Blake put on trial after Majors Burns and Houlihan report him for "giving aid and comfort to the enemy". When Hawkeye and Trapper catch wind of this they crash the trial with Meg Cratty, an elderly American nurse who treats children from North and South Korea alike (and to whom Blake had donated spare medical supplies). After she testifies on Blake's behalf, an admiring Hawkeye leans over to her: |
| 344 | -->'''Hawkeye:''' You're beautiful.\ |
| 345 | '''Nurse Cratty:''' I ''used'' to be, sonny. |
| 346 | * Kari Byron of ''{{Series/Mythbusters}}'' has zigzagged this. One of her earliest appearances on the show was as the "butt model" for the "Airplane Toilet" myth. She only agreed to it because she figured the show would be some nothing cable series. After the show became massively popular, she bemoaned on one of the specials that when anyone searches for her, "What's the first thing that comes up? My butt!". However, she later at least partly reversed this outlook, noting "What woman wouldn't want a record of how great her butt looked in her twenties?". |
| 347 | * Sid has claimed to have been in the 2003 ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' Christmas special "Sleepless in Peckham" when looking at himself in the photograph of the 1960 Jolly Boys' Outing. |
| 348 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Angela's Wedding", Mrs. Davis' sister Angela claims to be a bathing beauty and provides her future husband, Gregory Farnsworth, with a photo of her from over thirty-years-before. Miss Brooks is asked to break the news that Angela is now a plump, middle-aged woman. Miss Brooks brings along smelling-salts to help break the news. Fortunately, Angela's fiance finds her to be still very attractive. |
| 349 | -->'''Gregory Farnsworth''': Oh, what a doll baby!\ |
| 350 | '''Miss Brooks''': ''(sniffs smelling salts'') |
| 351 | * ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': |
| 352 | ** Red says she was once quite attractive and laments the effects that age has on her looks. Flashbacks reveal she was indeed quite a pretty young woman. |
| 353 | ** Norma was a lovely red-haired girl when she was young. |
| 354 | * ''Series/PushingDaisies'': |
| 355 | ** The Darling Mermaid Darlings are not old enough to completely lose their luster, but the years have not been kind to them. |
| 356 | ** Jackson Lucas, the diamond thief from the episode "Pidgeon," plays this trope so straight that it borders on lampshading -- though it does not hurt that we first meet him as a corpse. |
| 357 | * ''Series/{{Shoestring}}'': Lettie Ross from "Room With A View" is a former music hall singer who shows Eddie some pictures of herself in her prime. |
| 358 | * [[SilverFox Annette O'Toole's]] role in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' as Martha Kent reminded more comic readers (and artists) that she wasn't always a grey-haired middle-aged woman, which was subsequently used in a Superman reboot when she was portrayed as a rather attractive woman in Clark's younger days. Oddly enough, take a look at Creator/AnnetteOToole in 1983's ''Film/SupermanIII'' where she plays ComicBook/LanaLang. Cuter than Creator/MargotKidder's Lois Lane by a Smallville country mile. |
| 359 | * Linea/Ke'ra from ''Series/StargateSG1'' is practically unrecognisable after her de-aging from pleasant [[TheSociopath seeming]] older lady into a cute and kind doctor, science geek, and GenkiGirl who hooks up with Daniel. The amnesia element is crucial, because while the looks really throw everyone off, it's the [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent genuinely different personality]] that really misleads people. Then it's discovered just who she really is, and there's a MassOhCrap. |
| 360 | * In an episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', Eddie mocks a Franchise/StarTrek-esque show, but goes to a convention in hopes of meeting the actress who played the attractive character "Curvatia". Unfortunately, since the show was quite old, the actress is now old and fat. Eddie shrugs this off and asks for her autograph anyway. |
| 361 | * In ''Series/TheThornBirds'', elderly Mary Carson is in love with young priest Ralph de Bricassart, who rejects her. She bemoans that inside her old body she's still young. Mary is played by Creator/BarbaraStanwyck. If Ralph knew what [[http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/photos/07-06-07/Stanwyck.jpg she used to look like]], he'd pray to God that the outside matched the in! |
| 362 | * ''Series/ATouchOfFrost''. Inspector Frost is going through a box of personal items stolen from an old lady and finds some B&W photos of a voluptuous young woman posing naked in the woods. The old lady just says "Oh, I was ''very'' naughty, wasn't I?" Frost just winks and says she'd better take this particular evidence home with her. "Else we might get too excited." |
| 363 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': PlayedForDrama in the Season 1 episode "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"; an aging WhiteDwarfStarlet named Barbara Trenton is utterly obsessed with her GloryDays back when she was young, beautiful and at the top of her career, to the point that she wants to do nothing other than endlessly watch her own old movies in her mansion. Her manager Danny tries to help her face reality, but nothing he does makes her snap out of it. In the end, Barbara gets her wish, as she somehow wills herself to become part of her own movies, where she reunites with her old co-stars and regains her youth and looks. |
| 364 | * In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', Xena and Gabrielle find themselves 25 years in the future. The Xena lookalike Meg has let herself go. Gabrielle jokes that Xena should cut down on her food intake to prevent herself from going the same way. |
| 365 | [[/folder]] |
| 366 | |
| 367 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 368 | * "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" by Music/GlenCampbell. |
| 369 | * In "Tsuki No Waltz" by Mio Iyasama, the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshotter_youtube_tsukinowaltz_019.png old man]] reverts back to his youth while being spun on a clock needle, and he looked like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshotter_youtube_tsukinowaltz_310.png this.]] |
| 370 | * Music/TheMenzingers' ''Lookers'' is titled after this trope, although the lyrics are more about attempting to find a girl the protagonist remembers from a photograph. |
| 371 | -->''You were such a looker in the old days'' |
| 372 | * At the end of Music/DavidLeeRoth's video for "A Lil' Ain't Enough", he does a time skip to October 10, 2021 (which was Dave's 67th birthday), he appears as an overweight, barely mobile version of his 30-year-younger self. |
| 373 | * Music/NeilSedaka's ''She was the Queen of Nineteen-Sixty Four'' is about a groupie who gets too old to rock and roll. |
| 374 | -->''She didn't get Mick, but she got a kick and a black eye from Bianca...'' |
| 375 | [[/folder]] |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 378 | * True of a lot of wrestlers. Many of them were quite attractive before getting into the business. Then the years of getting thrown around, endless travel, and drug consumption, both medical and recreational, start taking their toll. |
| 379 | * Manager Wrestling/PaulBearer, in the middle of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHw026UDKo plot dump]] explaining he was carrying on with Wrestling/{{Kane}} and Wrestling/TheUndertaker's mother, paused and explained to a totally-unbelieving interviewer that "I didn't look like ''this'', then -- in fact, I was actually pretty studly!". Most viewers considered this unlikely. But pictures of [[http://www.percypringle.com/Gallery-Pictures/Room-2/pic-017.html Bill Moody as a young man]] show it to be true. |
| 380 | * Mae Young, who most wrestling fans knew as that revolting [[DirtyOldWoman horny grandma]], was quite the looker when she was young back in the 1950s. She actually modeled her look on the starlets of the time. [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/m/maeyoung/13.jpg Observe]]. WWE never even mentioned this, despite the fact that it could conceivably have made her older self funny.[[note]]The idea being that she still acted like her younger self, despite being in her 80s.[[/note]] |
| 381 | * Ditto for Fabulous Moolah. Although there isn't currently any footage available of Moolah in the very early days of her wrestling career (1949-early 1950's, when wrestling shows were almost never recorded or televised for anyone other than the biggest stars such as Wrestling/GeorgeWagner, the original GorgeousGeorge), there are a number of anecdotes from her peers at the time about how attractive she was. Candids and promotional photographs also exist that confirms this. Unfortunately, like many of her male counterparts, her looks faded ''fast'' thanks to the punishing nature of wrestling, both in the ring, and outside of it. |
| 382 | * Wrestling/MickFoley, believe it or not. Despite now looking like a scruffy teddy bear who's missing several teeth and one ear, anyone who's seen photos of him in his youth, generally from reading his autobiography, will see that he was a pretty good-looking guy before he started taking chair shots. |
| 383 | * Wrestling/RicFlair. Looks like a caffeine-crazed grandpa these days but he was a real looker in his youth. |
| 384 | * Wrestling/{{Raven}}: Was known as a pretty boy early in his career, working under the name "Scotty the Body". Then the years of hardcore matches and legendary drug consumption started to become noticeable. |
| 385 | * Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch is a weird example. When she first showed up in the WWF, her looks were ''dazzling''. Then her drug consumption (along with her partner Wrestling/ChrisCandido's) spiraled out of control and she started looking very rough. Sometime around 2004, both Candido and Sytch kicked the drugs and she started looking pretty good again. Then Candido died in a fluke surgical mishap and Sytch understandably went to pieces and piled on the pounds. |
| 386 | * Inverted with Bull Nakano. In wrestling, she had a fat but tough build and wore punk rock looking clothes, bizarre makeup, and more bizarre hair.[[note]]Wrestling/BobbyHeenan infamously compared it to a porcupine.[[/note]] When she quit wrestling for golf, she dropped the weird outfits and hairstyles, lost a lot of weight, and is quite attractive. |
| 387 | * Razor Ramon (Wrestling/ScottHall) was once a pretty [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wwebrady/images/f/fb/Razor_Ramon.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20150801162833 sexy dude.]] However, the wear and tear of wrestling and rampant alcohol abuse took its [[http://stuntgranny.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/10431075.jpg toll]] on him. Fortunately his good friend Wrestling/DiamondDallasPage helped him get clean, so even if he wasn't getting any younger, he at least [[https://wrestlingnews.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Scott-Hall-1280x720.jpg looked much more healthy and happy]] during his final years. |
| 388 | * Wrestling/PaulHeyman once referred to himself as a child actor when he talked about his older promos from his days in [[Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation the AWA]] being shown on [[Creator/{{ESPN}} ESPN Classic]]. Vids at age ''21-22'' prove that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWTalC8JvOU quite]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJx30LY7Il0 right]]. |
| 389 | * The legendary Wrestling/HarleyRace once wrestled as "Handsome" Harley Race in the AWA in the early '60s. Those who only know him as the rough, rugged world champion of the '70s and '80s will be surprised to know that [[http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2005/12/07/hennig-race.JPG he was once a bleach blonde pretty boy]]. |
| 390 | ** On another note, the second man in that picture is Larry "The Ax" Hennig, another wrestler who's mostly known as [[http://www.profightdb.com/img/wrestlers/thumbs-600/bc83e0b378larry-hennig.jpg a big, ugly brute of a man.]] Fans wouldn't recognize him in his "Pretty Boy" Larry Hennig days. And yes, he's the father of Wrestling/CurtHennig. |
| 391 | ** In a similar vein, you have Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, who before adopting the shaved, goateed, toughest-sumbitch-in-the-room persona, had a long mane (though already thinning on top) of blonde hair and wrestled as "Stunning" Steve Austin in a pretty-boy heel gimmick. |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 395 | * Played for drama with Ma-Ha-Suchi in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. In the First Age, he was known as the "Wolf with the Red Roses", was ''ridiculously'' {{Bishonen}}, and had a Motivation of "Bed every Celestial Exalt." And he ''almost'' pulled it off. Then came the Usurpation, and he was forced to flee into [[RealityIsOutToLunch the Wyld]]... where he ended up [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in the form of a hideous goat-wolf-satyr... thing]]. No ''wonder'' he wants to destroy civilization. |
| 396 | [[/folder]] |
| 397 | |
| 398 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 399 | * In Noël Coward's ''Theatre/BitterSweet'', we first meet the elderly Marchioness of Shayne in 1929, then {{flashback}} to 1875 when she, as Sarah Millick, eloped to Vienna with her singing teacher, Carl Linden. After an officer who was hitting on her killed Carl in 1880, Sari Linden became world-famous performing the songs he wrote. At last returning to England in 1895, she agreed to marry a Marquess who had been fondly pursuing her across Europe. |
| 400 | * ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'': Grizabella the Glamour Cat is this to a T. |
| 401 | * Inverted in ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'': the Witch, cursed by her mother, is ''prematurely'' old and shrivelled when the play begins and has been for some time. Her youthful, beautiful appearance, which is revealed at the end of Act One and continues for the rest of the show, is in fact her genuine current self. |
| 402 | * In ''Theatre/OnTheTown'', Madame Dilly cautions Ivy: "Sex and art don't mix. If they did, I'd have gone right to the top." |
| 403 | * In the musical ''Theatre/OutOfThisWorld'', Juno has the song "I Sleep Easier Now," a ListSong filled with typical Music/ColePorter {{Double Entendre}}s about what she used to do "in the olden days at 10 P.M." but doesn't anymore. |
| 404 | * In ''Theatre/OurTown'' Mrs. Webb mentions that she was "the prettiest girl in town, next to Mamie Cartwright" during a reminiscent moment. |
| 405 | * In ''Theatre/{{Picnic}}'', bitter OldMaid schoolteacher Rosemary grouses about all the attention given to gorgeous young Madge, saying "When I was a girl I was just as good looking as she is!" |
| 406 | * Ruth, in ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'', might fall into this category... |
| 407 | -->'''Frederic:''' ...Are you--beautiful?\ |
| 408 | '''Ruth:''' I have been told so, dear master!\ |
| 409 | '''Frederic:''' Ah, but... recently?\ |
| 410 | '''Ruth:''' Oh, no! Years and years ago... |
| 411 | * Dr. Daly, the aging vicar in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/TheSorcerer''. In fact, not only does he sing a melancholy song about how stunningly attractive he was as a young curate, he still makes one young female character go weak at the knees. |
| 412 | * Belle, the sleeping car, from ''Theatre/StarlightExpress''. As she states in her song: |
| 413 | -->"I had crystal lamps, Irish linen |
| 414 | -->To set off my red velvet dress. |
| 415 | -->Those who rode on me compared me to |
| 416 | -->The Orient Express." |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 420 | * A non age-related example in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''. combines this with BadAssBoast: |
| 421 | -->"My name is Jerbraz, once one of the most handsome and dashing members of my little circle of friends ... that is, back when I could be seen. Now I have to rely on my charm alone to make an impression ... that and this nasty sword that conveniently turned invisible with me. If you see someone's head just suddenly go flying off for no reason, it's not your imagination." |
| 422 | [[/folder]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 425 | %%* [[spoiler: Grunty]] from ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. |
| 426 | * In ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', [[spoiler:the Masked Lumen]] whom Bayonetta encounters several times throughout the game turns out to be the younger version of [[spoiler:Father Balder, BigBad of the first game.]] |
| 427 | * ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'' has Our Lady of the Charred Visage. She was formerly known as Áurea, a woman who had a face that was so beautiful and pious that many sculptors used her likeness as a model. Over time, the people of Cvstodia saw her beauty as a sign of divinity, replacing their religious images with Áurea's likeness, to her horror; she then [[FacialHorror poured hot oil onto her face]]. Shortly, she wrapped her face in gauze, wore a golden mask over it, and entered a convent. The Penitent One can see the hideous aftermath of her self-inflicted facial horror. |
| 428 | * ''VideoGame/CantrII'': Averted, strangely. You can change at will your character's description, but there's no need to update it. Cue the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very old]] (ingame term for someone over the age of 80 ingame years) "looking" the precise same as when she was 22. A most [[JustForFun/{{Egregious}} our-favourite-word]] example, involves a ~140 year old mundane man looking like [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Vash]] but even prettier. |
| 429 | * In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', your player character was known for being extremely handsome in his 20s and 30s, but a combination of [[AddledAddict severe alcohol abuse]], repulsive midlife-crisis-induced fashion choices and suicidal depression has mangled his looks along with most of his appeal to others. He deliberately uses a photo of himself from his youth on his police badge, as a way of denying the extent of the damage. He still retains traces of his good looks which a few characters remark on, with Lena noting his appealing cleft chin and Kim suggesting he'd look fine if he tidied himself up a little. |
| 430 | * In the ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' raid event "Fractured Futures", it turns out that [[spoiler:the late King Aurelius]] has a time-traveling AlternateSelf who was [[FountainOfYouth physically aged down to his prime]] in a battle against the time-manipulating villain. And, as Notte points out in his Adventurer story, [[https://gamepedia.cursecdn.com/dragalialost_gamepedia_en/f/f7/110334_01_r05_portrait.png?version=1b6be57889b7b9175f5f28a98d6f2636 the end result is very attractive]]. |
| 431 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': |
| 432 | ** [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/File:WynneEpilogue.png Wynne]], though her former beauty is only hinted at in dialogues. |
| 433 | ** Flemeth wasn't always a withered old crone. She used to look like Morrigan. [[spoiler: And plans on [[GrandTheftMe doing so again]].]] Of course, ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' shows that [[SilverFox that's not the only human form she has.]] |
| 434 | --->'''Flemeth:''' "Yes, men desired Flemeth then, and some even killed for her." |
| 435 | * ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'': |
| 436 | ** Tandi in ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' is shown as a rather attractive young woman from the small town of Shady Sands. She reappears 80 years later in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', aged 96. |
| 437 | ** [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/File:Pearl.jpg Mother Pearl]], [[CoolOldLady matriarch]] of the [[MadBomber Boomers]] in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', is a wise old lady who understands the need to break out of their reclusiveness just a little. Once you drag that old B-29 out of Lake Mead, Loyal (the Boomers' master technologist who's just as old as Pearl) demonstrates that he apparently has excellent knowledge the shape of Pearl's former figure by adorning the restored plane with [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/File:Nv_b29pearl.png nose art depicting her from way back when]]. |
| 438 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 439 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Hojo lacks his crooked back, unhealthy pallor, and sunken brow in the flashback where he betrays Prof Gast. Though for some reason young Hojo looks exactly the same as old Hojo in ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus''. |
| 440 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' shows us that back when President Shinra was a young upstart he was the spitting image of his son Rufus, via an old photo. |
| 441 | ** Verstael from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'', while there aren't any pictures of him in his younger years, [[spoiler:his biological son, [[{{Bishonen}} Prompto]], was created via cloning, so it's safe to assume that he used to be quite good looking.]] |
| 442 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 443 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', Roy's father Lord Eliwood is only in his late 30's, but the stress of being a ReasonableAuthorityFigure ''and'' his bad health in recent years has certainly robbed him of his youthful appearance, causing him to look much more weathered and aged than anyone would expect. [[http://images.wikia.com/fireemblem/images/5/50/Fe6Eliwood.jpg Here's how he appears in Sword Of Seals]] and to compare [[http://images.wikia.com/fireemblem/images/2/25/Eliwood.jpg how he looked in its prequel Blazing Sword set 20 years earlier.]] |
| 444 | ** In the same game, Niime claims this word for word in her A support with her grandson Hugh, and was apparently was very aware of this fact as she used her looks [[GoldDigger to con men out of all their money then leave once they couldn't spend more on her.]] |
| 445 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/5/57/Garon_portrait.png/revision/latest?cb=20160529045507 King Garon]], who [[http://insanekirby.tumblr.com/post/151067252511/bruh-garon-used-to-be-hot-and-a-cavalier in his prime]] was basically a white-haired version of [[TheUglyGuysHotDaughter his gorgeous eldest son]] [[{{Hunk}} Prince Xander.]] |
| 446 | * ''VideoGame/FableI'''s Darkwood Bordello has Polly the old, discount-rate prostitute. It's played for BlackComedy at first but takes a heartwarming turn if the Hero has the Bordello turned into a shelter and gives her a chance to retire. |
| 447 | --> ''"Name's Polly. Used to be Pretty Polly. Now just Polly..."'' |
| 448 | * Kliff Undersn from ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear X]]'', as shown by his ability to revert to his younger form when doing an [[LimitBreak Overdrive]], was certainly quite a good-looking fellow back in the day. |
| 449 | * According to [[spoiler:The Outsider]], Granny Rags of ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' was quite the beauty and had many men of power and status wrapped around her fingers. You can find a young photo of her in the game. |
| 450 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'s'' Dr. Halsey was apparently quite good-looking when she was young. Case in point, it's said that [[MsFanservice Cortana's]] appearance was based on that of her as a young woman. |
| 451 | * Lorenzo Belli from ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', who temporarily [[spoiler: restores his youthful looks for the final battle]]. Apparently, to quite a few fans, his newfound appearance was hot enough that they were ''almost'' willing to overlook the {{Squick}}iness of him going after [[spoiler: his granddaughter]], Fiona. |
| 452 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' - Prequel villain [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/master_xehanort_3435.jpg Master Xehanort]] (the original incarnation of the franchise-long BigBad) is a wrinkled, balding old man when we first see him. When we go even further back[[spoiler: or rather, his younger self {{Time Travel}}s from the past to the future]], it turns out he [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/young_xehanort_6406.png used to look like this.]] Makes you wonder if he [[spoiler: stole Terra's body]] just so he could be a {{Bishonen}} again. |
| 453 | ** [[spoiler: We also had Master Eraqus who is Xehanort's friend before he kill him and the mentor towards Aqua, Terra, and Ventus. He was really a {{Bishonen}} before [[WeUsedToBeFriends things got really bad between him and Xehanort]], which is where he got the scars from. Also, he was really much nicer before.]] |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': |
| 455 | ** Jolee Bindo, especially when he starts talking about "back when I had hair..." |
| 456 | ** Can't forget Kreia from the second game. Though we never see it, even ATTON seems to accept it. |
| 457 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 458 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', Link is (benevolently) haunted by a terrifying apparition of a rotted skeleton in decaying armor who has taken it upon himself to train him in swordplay. While the game itself never shows who he once was, both ''Literature/HyruleHistoria'' and [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016 the manga]] reveal he had been the [[MrFanservice legendarily handsome]] [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hero of Time]]]]. |
| 459 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has an elderly Gerudo character named Muava who says she was quite a boy magnet when she was young. But she spent much of her younger years looking for the Lover's Pond where it is said people can find their true love; she never found it, and she ended up too old for the guys to find a lover. |
| 460 | *** The ''[=BotW=]'' incarnation of Impa makes an appearance in the prequel ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'', which takes place a century before the events of ''[=BotW=]''. As such, she appears as a young woman, [[IdenticalGrandson resembling her granddaughter Paya]]. |
| 461 | * ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1'': Miss Petunia, the BathingBeauty, used to look beautiful, enough to be the Miss Ghost runner-up from six years before the events of the game. When Luigi [[ShowerOfAwkward encounters her in a bathroom]] where he can see the SexySilhouette of a svelte woman taking a bath behind the curtain, but once he moves it, Miss Petunia is actually a pig-like BrawnHilda. It's implied the silhouette is what she used to look like before she gained weight. |
| 462 | * ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': |
| 463 | ** Max Payne [[http://guide2games.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/max-payne-2-3-800x541.jpg didn't look too bad]] by the time of the second game, but a comparison with [[http://www.sg.hu/kep/2001_09/max_payne_bemutato_01.jpg the first appearance]] certainly shows how he managed to age somewhat in the span of only two years. |
| 464 | ** And then [[http://www.pcgameshardware.com/screenshots/medium/2009/06/Max-Payne-3.jpg the third game]] was announced, with many fans outright refusing to recognize him. |
| 465 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 466 | ** [[MagnificentBastard Revolver Ocelot]]: behold the earth-shattering sound of the fangirl's jaws dropping onto the floor when the [[http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RU8vXW4WLqU/TKWN6K9gzOI/AAAAAAAAVa0/BCW5Nc6w29s/Major%20Ocelot.jpg young]] Major Ocelot strolled onto the scene in the third game. |
| 467 | ** Roy Campbell. He looks like a fairly amiable old man in Solid Snake's timeline -- but in Naked Snake's timeline, he's [[http://images.wikia.com/metalgear/images/6/6d/Young_Roy.jpg a ruggedly-gorgeous young man]] who isn't at all ashamed to use his sexuality to get what he wants. |
| 468 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Shang Tsung [[http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/feature-Mortal-Kombat-Shang-Tsung.jpg as an old man]], [[http://images.wikia.com/villains/images/6/6c/Shang_tsung_mk2011.jpg and with his youth restored.]] |
| 469 | * ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'': |
| 470 | ** The poster for the grand opening of Darcy's reveals that the old man used to have a full head of hair and a handsome mustache 30 years ago. |
| 471 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Junghan Gong. The 40-year-old Stabilizer looks rugged in his mugshot taken in 2064. He was 24 at the time. |
| 472 | * Jujudormah from ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'' is an old Genma crone in ''[[VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny Samurai's Destiny]]''. One of the hidden characters in ''[[VideoGame/OnimushaBladeWarriors Blade Warriors]]'' is Juju-ran, her very attractive past self. |
| 473 | * Quite a few of the older members of ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' have fallen into this. |
| 474 | ** Soldier: 76 has gone from [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NSyQjDwkeeI/maxresdefault.jpg a total stud]] to a [[SilverFox grizzled, grey-haired old man]]. |
| 475 | ** Ana once resembled [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/overwatch/images/b/b8/Young_Ana_Skin.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160819133813 a hotter version]] of her daughter, Pharah. These days she's missing an eye and has gained a few wrinkles and grey hair. |
| 476 | ** Reinhardt once resembled a [[http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pvLk32jfKsQCAWrVjBq9b4.jpg male model in powered armor]]. While he's still fairly [[SilverFox handsome]] its in [[https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/002/465/494/large/renaud-galand-r01.jpg?1462061463 a much more gruff and rugged way]], [[DentedIron his years of fighting and adventuring are definitely starting to catch up to him]]. |
| 477 | ** Probably the most dramatic is Reaper, who used to be the very TallDarkAndHandsome Gabriel Reyes... until he became the undead horror he is now. While we [[TheUnreveal haven't seen his unmasked face yet]], the reactions of characters who ''have'' seen it indicates he's [[BodyHorror horribly deformed]]. |
| 478 | * The Puni Elder of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' claims this if Mario jokingly says "I love you!" to her. |
| 479 | * ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': |
| 480 | ** According to Agatha, [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Professor Oak]]. |
| 481 | -->"I hear Oak's taken a lot of interest in you, child. That old duff was once tough and handsome. But that was decades ago. He's a shadow of his former self." |
| 482 | ** When you start the Eevium Z postgame quest in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', Kagetora tells you about Polly the Vaporeon user, who according to him was this on another level. |
| 483 | ** Though never brought up in the game itself, the artbook reveals that [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Opal]] was stunning [[https://twitter.com/hirespokemon/status/1218821780724383745 in her younger years,]] but she has since aged into a grandmotherly figure, and [[GagNose her nose has somehow tripled in length]]. |
| 484 | * In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Mayor Myer's portrait on the 1st floor (2nd floor in American English) of the town hall shows him as a dashing young man with brown hair and a short mustache. |
| 485 | * The elderly characters in the ''VideoGame/PowerInstinct'' series have the ability to regress to their younger, more attractive selves. |
| 486 | * ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': |
| 487 | ** Ford Cruller is shown to have been handsome and well-groomed when he was a younger man. Not so much when he's an elderly, balding man with wild hair. |
| 488 | ** Raz's grandmother is squat and small, but [[spoiler:flashbacks to her youth as a member of the Psychic Seven]] shows that she was a tall and beautiful woman. |
| 489 | * [[DemBones Dapper Bones]] from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' claims this about himself a few times throughout his story in ''Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary'', although the player never gets to see what he looked like before his death. He claims to have had beautiful long, curly blond hair, but he threw all of his pictures of himself into the ocean and begs them to be left alone, claiming that they would bring back painful memories. |
| 490 | * ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' and ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionII'': |
| 491 | ** Dutch starts off as a healthy, well-dressed man in 1899 but he has degraded into an unkempt mountain man with a huge bushy beard by 1907. By 1911, he is a modestly dressed, sickly-looking man that appears elderly. |
| 492 | ** In ''II'', Javier was suave, clean-cut and very stylish. He can be found around camp polishing his shoes and many of his outfits include sharp vests, ascots and matching hats. By ''I'', he has grown filthy and thin with a distinct rat-like appearance. |
| 493 | * Although he never says as much, in ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy'' we actually see a younger Dorgongoa, who looks a bit like a younger, more handsome Conan the Barbarian. Consider his "present" form is a ''morbidly obese cartoonish pirate''. |
| 494 | * ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'': |
| 495 | ** Tetih says this word-for-word in one of her conversations with you. Many people used to dance with her at festivals when she was younger because of her attractiveness. |
| 496 | ** According to the protagonist's adoptive grandfather Igrork, Zelk reminds him of when he was younger, only with more hair. |
| 497 | * Carla from ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' was quite beautiful in her youth. Sadly, when her good looks abandoned her, so did all the men in her life and she fell on hard times. During the events of the game, she runs a fortune teller business leaving to her protegé Lucina the alluring aspect of it. |
| 498 | * ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'''s [[http://www.fightersgeneration.com/np2/char1/br/hachi-br.jpeg Heihachi Mishima]], surprisingly. He managed to lose 40 years before ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'', pictured [[http://www.fightersgeneration.com/np8/game/tt2/tt2-heihachi.JPG here.]] (In truth, [[Creator/DaisukeGori Heihachi's voice actor]] died [[DrivenToSuicide tragically]], so Namco decided to change his appearance.) While it ultimately doesn't carry over into ''7'', his younger self does occasionally appear in flashbacks. |
| 499 | * ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Marya, Epel's grandmother, was quite pretty in her youth, to the point where Epel's friends mistake a photo of her younger self to be of [[DudeLooksLikeALady Epel]] in a dress. |
| 500 | * Gary Golden and Imalia of ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. To the point that they're willing to pay generously for any footage of themselves from before their Embrace by the Nosferatu. Averted with Mitnick, who shares their grotesque appearance but was apparently so unappealing in life that he actually looks ''better'' after the Embrace. |
| 501 | * ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'': Downplayed example, since Shun Akiyama is still fairly young (32) and reasonably handsome. However, in flashbacks to his 20s he is a full-blown PrettyBoy, and it is very clear that age and a few years of homelessness and sleeping rough on the streets of Kamurocho have done a number on his appearance. |
| 502 | [[/folder]] |
| 503 | |
| 504 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 505 | * [[AllThereInTheManual Background information]] (as well as ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'') for the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate]] [[Literature/FateZero series]] shows that [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fateuniverse/images/6/6a/Zoken.png/revision/latest?cb=20141106104833 Zouken Matou]] didn't always resemble a festering pile of wrinkles and evil. In fact, he [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110226193122/typemoon/images/2/26/Youngzouken.jpg used to look]] more than a little like Zero!Lancer (read: Diarmuid Ua Duibhne of the Radiant Face). |
| 506 | * In ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'', it is said that David Hanks used to be handsome when he was young. But he is now bald and out of shape. |
| 507 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' reveals that Shion and Mion's "Evil Granny" Oryuu was rather attractive in one of the anime-only omakes much to Mion's surprise. |
| 508 | * In an (adult) visual novel game ''Large Pon Pon'' made by Overflow (the same maker of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''), you're introduced to [[ObnoxiousInLaws Tomoe Sawagoe]], one of the heroine's mother-in-law, and [[{{Gonk}} Arisu Takatsukasa]], the head nurse [[spoiler:who may become one of your "love interest".]] Fans who have played ''Snow Radish Vacation'' will know that [[http://vndb.org/c15941 both]] [[http://vndb.org/c15940 characters]] were once very attractive and Tomoe was once a kind heiress. {{Justified|Trope}}, as year after year of stresses [[spoiler:of Tomaru's adultery]] turns them into this. |
| 509 | * ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' has Reiko, the dorm manager and Gakuto's mom, in a flashback. |
| 510 | * Wendy Oldbag of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' claims in the first game that she was a mildly successful film actress in her youth. She also has a tendency to use PuppyDogEyes an awful lot, implying there was a time in her life when that maneuver was actually effective. |
| 511 | ** In one (rather strange, even by ''Ace Attorney'' Standards) commissioned side-story involving the ghost of Wendy's Identical Grandmother and said grandmother's lover (very, ''very'' long story) proves that Wendy was right about being attractive. |
| 512 | * Jeanne Amakawa's younger self is introduced in ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays''' Last Season, and unsurprisingly she was this, though she is closer to UnkemptBeauty, with slightly messy hair and a loose top. |
| 513 | * In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' it's occasionally noted, and later outright confirmed, that crazy old grandpa Kinzo Ushiromiya used to look a hell of a lot like his {{bishonen}} grandson Battler when he was young. The manga also reveals that Kinzo's OldRetainer Genji wasn't bad-looking in his youth either. |
| 514 | [[/folder]] |
| 515 | |
| 516 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 517 | * Baba Mouse of ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'', shown [[http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/a-brief-history-of-mouse-and-wicket/ here]]. |
| 518 | * From ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' there's Bruno's mother, Eunyce, who - in several flashbacks - is seen in her past identity: Eunyce, Warrior Hottie! Sadly, she still wears her old, {{Stripperific}} costume waaaaay too often. Three of her equally elderly friends showed up in one storyline as well, revealing that they also used to be Warrior Hotties, but unfortunately, unlike Eunyce, they hadn't kept up their fighting skills in old age, so they got curbstomped by the villains (one of whom was a grandson). |
| 519 | ** Same thing with Bruno's father Eustace, who was exactly as studly and suave as Bruno in his youth (albeit with beard stubble instead of a moustache). In the present, he's fat, balding, and lost an arm at some point before he retired as a thief. |
| 520 | * ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'' has Queen Louise Mills, the former queen. She was so pretty when she was younger that her subtitle as queen was "the Beautiful" and was selected to marry George in their ArrangedMarriage because of her beauty. |
| 521 | * In ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'', Dr. Worth basically [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=241 resembles a human vulture]] and lives in a shady back-alley clinic. [[AllThereInTheManual A bonus picture]] by [[WordOfGod Tessa]] shows that when he was in his twenties, he looked like [[http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/Modern-Middle-Ages-147207409 this]]. |
| 522 | * ''Webcomic/HowIKilledYourMaster'' starts off with the apprentice searching for the eponymous evil master's killer, who is the narrator and central hero of the story, who is an old man. Cut later in the story to when he was 10 years old, and then later when he's in his 20s. We also got a look at the Five Dragons when Master Fei unveiled the truth about Wong's father, and apparently Fei had quite a head of hair way back when. |
| 523 | * Elanor of ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' was one back in the day, so much that a picture of her from her younger days got leaked onto the internet (by her son Ralph, who didn't recognize her at all. His head literally imploded when he found out). Her son-in-law Kevin, though, believes she still is. He did recognize her, after all. |
| 524 | * ''Webcomic/LighterThanHeir'': Zeppelin's mother, who used to be a pin-up girl for war propaganda. |
| 525 | * ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' - In [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/menage-a-3/do-not-get-smart-with-me this strip]], landlady Eulice Deville claims to have been beautiful when young. However, this claim is unconfirmed. |
| 526 | * ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Redge, who's a balding old man, is described to have had glorious flowing hair in the past. |
| 527 | * ''Webcomic/MyRoommateIsAnElf''. Granny Homfel looks completely different in her [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/?pageID=33 restored youth]] than when she was dying of [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/?pageID=27 old age]]. |
| 528 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 529 | ** Roy meets his mother in the afterlife. Since in the [[TheVerse Stickverse's]] good-aligned [[FluffyCloudHeaven heaven]] you look like your own idealized version of yourself, she appears as the very attractive nineteen-year-old woman she once was, to Roy's Oedipal chagrin. |
| 530 | --->'''Sara:''' Roy, it's me, your mother!\ |
| 531 | '''Roy:''' Uh, sorry, no. My mother has a grey bun hairdo and osteoporosis, not pigtails and a rack. |
| 532 | ** Roy's dad shows him a picture of mum in a bikini. |
| 533 | --->'''Eugene:''' And can you blame me? Look at the rack on that girl!\ |
| 534 | '''Roy:''' Gah! Never show me mom like that again! |
| 535 | ** The Empress of Blood was shown to be a sleek and slender, ass-kicking, young red dragon in Tarquin's flashback. Now very much larger, she barely ever moves and is a morbidly obese lump with wings (yet is somehow still able to fly). |
| 536 | * Subverted in the seriously NSFW comic ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'', when Ponce De Leon thought he found the fountain of youth after his old assistant drinks from it and becomes young and beautiful. But then she explains that she wasn't that beautiful when she ''was'' young. Too late; he then discovers he found the [[GenderBender Fountain of Girl]]. |
| 537 | [[/folder]] |
| 538 | |
| 539 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 540 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktozJWbLQg This YouTube video]] shows 102-year-old Alice Barker watching for the first time videos of herself dancing in Harlem nightclubs in the '30s and '40s. |
| 541 | * Invoked when Creator/LeslieJordan shared on his Instagram [[https://people.com/tv/leslie-jordan-shares-throwback-shirtless-selfie-from-1977-they-used-to-call-me-sweet-n-low/ two photos of his younger self]]. Since he was already middle-aged when he first became famous as a recurring character on ''Series/WillAndGrace'', practically the entire internet was shocked to see that he was quite handsome in his 20's. |
| 542 | -->'''Image caption''': I just called 1980 and told it I wanted my 6-pack back — except in those days I was drinking and I'm afraid they'll think I want beer. |
| 543 | -->'''Creator/OctaviaSpencer''' (in the comments): If they call u back text me. There are things I want too. |
| 544 | * Aunt Despair from WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. When she first started as a character, Tamara and Rob said she used to be as cute as Tamara before she started smoking and drinking constantly. |
| 545 | * Subverted by a clickbait article where former ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' models from decades past reenacted their cover photos. Only one looked significantly different due to age and weight gain, and sure enough, she was the one used as the image link. All the other models were still stunningly beautiful in their 40's and 50's; some wouldn't have looked out of place in the magazine ''today''. |
| 546 | * ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'': Pyotr the Nosferatu used to be quite the {{Bishounen}} as a human, as we see in a picture in the 3rd audiolog. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 550 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Simon Petrikov was this, at least by the art style's standards, before he became [[spoiler: the Ice King]]. |
| 551 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Francine is quite an attractive lady, which Stan bluntly points out is the ''only'' reason he married her in the first place. When she quits her diet and exercise routine, she becomes [[{{Gonk}} physically repulsive]], with an obese structure, facial hair, hairy arms, and rotting teeth. [[StatusQuoIsGod She returns to normal in the end, though]]. |
| 552 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', while trying to find out about Mrs. Croaker’s past, Anne, Polly and Sprig find a photo of her as an attractive young frog-woman. After Sprig runs off to find the mystery man in another photo, Anne and Polly elect to [[DistractedByTheSexy continue looking at "hot Croaker"]]. |
| 553 | * ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' has this happen to Miss Grundy in the episode "Twisted Youth" when the adults of Riverdale are reverted to teenagers. She spends most of the episode aggressively pursuing Reggie, [[spoiler:who's about to give in and kiss her when the effect's reversed.]] |
| 554 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 555 | ** The trope image comes from a scene in which Ty Lee sees a picture of two young women and asks who it is. Turns out it's the CreepyTwins Lo and Li, who then make the same pose as in the picture and make Zuko gag. Mai [[GenreSavvy covers his eyes]] when they [[FanDisservice take off their robes to show their bikinis.]] |
| 556 | ** "The Avatar and the Fire Lord" reveals that [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/avatar/images/f/f6/Roku.png/revision/20120601014953 Avatar Roku]] (who grew into a distinguished older man) looked pretty damn good in his [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/5/59221/1975840-roku_3.png younger]] [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081225190744/avatar/images/c/c0/Young_Roku_and_Ta_Min.png days]]. |
| 557 | ** "The Puppetmaster" shows that [[WickedWitch Hama]] was ''quite'' attractive as a young woman. |
| 558 | ** By the time of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Zuko has also lost his good looks with age, having traded them for a more distinguished appearance - not unlike his great-grandfather, Avatar Roku. |
| 559 | * Old Bruce Wayne informs Terry [=McGinnis=] of this status in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. |
| 560 | --> '''Bruce''': When I was younger women used to throw themselves at my feet all the time. |
| 561 | --> '''Terry''': What'd you do? |
| 562 | --> '''Bruce''': I stepped over them. |
| 563 | --> '''Terry''': Smooth. |
| 564 | --> '''Bruce''': I thought so. |
| 565 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'': The episode "Miss National Park" reveals that [[ButchLesbian Connie]] was rather cute and pleasant-looking when she was a child, mostly due to drugs and bulimia from her StageMom. As soon as puberty hit, however, she expanded ''rapidly'' (along with her voice deepening) and became the {{Gonk}} she is now. |
| 566 | * ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': |
| 567 | ** [=BoJack's=] mother Beatrice was beautiful in her youth as a debutante, and she’s bitter about how she looks post child birth, which she uses to guilt her son due to believing having him "ruined her". "You know, I was ''beautiful'' before I got pregnant". |
| 568 | ** His father Butterscotch was also pretty rugged when he first met Beatrice, but by middle age he’s balding with wrinkles and a gut. |
| 569 | ** [=BoJack=] himself was pretty good looking in his Horsin' Around days, but in the years after the show’s cancellation he's developed wrinkles and a pot belly. Season 6 reveals that his mane has long-since gone grey, which he has been hiding for years with black dye. After reuniting with his old Horsin' Around makeup artist, she convinces him to wash out the dye, and he remains grey-haired for the rest of the shows run. |
| 570 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'': |
| 571 | ** The Brown family's morbidly obese neighbor Kendra, in her youth, was a svelte, gorgeous movie starlet with a string of rich husbands and lovers. Though for some odd reason, she rode around on her signature electric scooter even back then, despite obviously being able to walk with no problem. |
| 572 | ** There's also Donna. Who with a heavy dose of beauty enhancements, hides the fact that she aged ''[[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/cleveland/images/9/98/Baredonna.png/revision/latest?cb=20111205034813 badly]]'' Invoked in one episode where the family attends the San Diego Comic-Con, and it's revealed that Donna once starred in a Blaxploitation movie called "Hot-Coco Bang-Bang". Rallo is visibly disturbed just how badly his mother has aged since the movie was made. |
| 573 | ** Cleveland himself hasn't changed too much ''visually'', he's even had his moustache since high school, but he was portrayed as much more athletic as a teenager (the school baseball team even retired his number), and more suave and confident in college. |
| 574 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "Control Freaks" showed that Sam's grandmother was this. |
| 575 | * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140811060559/https://www.superherouniverse.com/superheroes/images/batman/batman-beyond/new/harley-quinn.jpg Harley Quinn]] in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. The old lady is Harley as of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. |
| 576 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Doug is volunteering at a local nursing home. He's paired up with an initially aloof woman named Mrs. Whackhammer. As the two bond by the end of the episode, she begins showing him old photos. One that catches his attention is a photo of her when she was about his age. She bears more than a striking resemblance to Patti. |
| 577 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Mrs. Claus, compared to her appearances in "[[https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/File:ChristmasEveryday-PartTwo00354.jpg Christmas Everyday!]]" and "[[https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/File:MerryWishmas366a.jpg Merry Wishmas]]". |
| 578 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Jess started off as quite a beautiful woman with a lean structure. Upon being married to Brian and finding out her cancer is now in recession, she binge eats to the point of becoming morbidly obese and losing most of her original looks (including her hair, which was replaced with a wig). Brian even says she has a "baby doll from Katrina face" ([[InsultBackfire which she misinterprets as a cute remark]]). [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she ends up dying (albeit off-screen) of a heart attack as a result of her letting herself go.]] |
| 579 | * Grunkle Stan from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' might be a crotchety old scam artist, but he was a pretty good looking guy [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_s1e17_stan_and_carla_dancin2_6100.png back in the day]]. [[spoiler: His twin brother didn't look so bad either. Although his twin brother is still very attractive, even in his somewhat older years.]] |
| 580 | * Irwin's grandmother, Tanya, in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. In her old age she looks like [[http://grimadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Tanya/Gallery?file=Vlcsnap-2015-05-11-22h37m15s669.png this]], but when she was younger she looked like [[http://grimadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Tanya/Gallery?file=Vlcsnap-2015-05-11-22h43m19s750.png this]]. |
| 581 | * ''WesternAnimation/IGotARocket'': Ma Duckie, as seen when Vinnie, Rocket, and Gabby end up back in the '50s in "I Got a Remote". |
| 582 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 583 | ** Bill was still a bit homely, but he was a popular, confident athlete with a lush head of hair in HighSchool. |
| 584 | ** Cotton Hill was a tall, handsome, powerful soldier in WWII. Then he had his shins shredded to pieces via a machine gun and his feet were attached to his knees, causing to go from 6'4" to 5' in height. By the time he married Tilly and had Hank, he looked like a brown-haired version of his current pruny, decrepit self. |
| 585 | * Granny, of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' fame, is shown to have been a [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110708155435/looneytunesshow/images/thumb/c/c9/Snapshot20110708011211.png/743px-Snapshot20110708011211.png very sexy]] ActionGirl, whom Daffy initially mistook for her ''granddaughter'', back in World War II in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. Also in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries''. Keeping that cat from eating that bird all the time must have really taken its toll on her. |
| 586 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 587 | ** Granny Smith was [[https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Granny_Smith/Gallery/Overview?file=Granny_Smith_when_she_was_a_younger_mare_ID_S3E8.png very]] [[https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Granny_Smith/Gallery/Overview?file=Granny_Smith_young_mare_ID_S7E13.png pretty]] back in her day. |
| 588 | ** Mistmane was once considered the [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman most beautiful Unicorn in the land]], but she one day had to use a spell that drained her and turned her into a crone. |
| 589 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Tooey's mom and dad are not bad-looking in the present day, but the episode "Tooey's Hole-i-Day Sweater" shows a picture of them from when Tooey was a baby. They were quite attractive; in particular, Atsaq used to grow out her hair, but has it in a bob in the present day. |
| 590 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'': "Mean Seasons" has a villain called Calendar Girl, a former model who, after getting "old" (read: [[HollywoodOld thirty years old]], ''tops''), was told she wasn't beautiful enough to hire anymore. After a botched plastic surgery, she now refuses to be seen without a mask covering her face, and goes on a crime spree to take revenge against the industry that cast her aside. [[spoiler:The heartbreaking final moments of the episode have her being unmasked as she screams and begs people not to look... and everyone sees that she's ''beautiful''. The botched surgery was just a rumor; the reason she wears a mask all the time is because she's developed Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and fully believes she's now old and unbearably ugly. Batman and Batgirl [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds feel genuinely sorry for her]] when they realize this.]] |
| 591 | * ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': In "It's Murder She Says", Anopheles Annie says this to other female mosquitos in the bar, and in flashback she does look very attractive--for an anthropomorphic mosquito--before the US Army's malaria eradication programme turned her into the broken down wreck she is now. |
| 592 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli discovers a photo that shows that Miss Finster was quite the looker when she and Spinelli's grandmother were entertaining the troops in the Pacific. In the film based on the series, we see flashbacks from the teachers. Miss Finster might have ''looked'' better when she was younger, but she still had [[VocalDissonance the exact same raspy voice.]] Not to mention the fact that Dr. Phillium Benedict ''still'' has the hots for her. Eww! |
| 593 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': |
| 594 | ** There was an episode that does this with ''all'' the elderly people (or, technically, [[FunnyAnimal animals]], since it is ''Rocko's Modern Life'' and all) in the vicinity. Rocko and Heffer were on a cruise in TheBermudaTriangle with Heffer's grandpa (among other old people), and this gigantic clock came along and completely switched around everyone's ages -- the youngsters (Rocko and Heffer) were now old geezers and the old people (Grandpa Wolfe, et al.) were all young again. After all, it was the BermudaTriangle, and strange, unexplainable things were bound to occur. |
| 595 | ** A couple of episodes feature Ed Bighead like this, in one he was tall, handsome, and muscular and had a buzz cut before he became old, and another features him looking like a green-skinned Lex Luthor before Heffer while working as a paperboy hit him with a newspaper that caused him to fall into a blender destroying his face. |
| 596 | * An episode of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' revealed that the grouchy old waitress used to be a water skiing champion who looked cute in a bikini. |
| 597 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 598 | ** Grampa Simpson was in his youth voted as the most handsome boy in Albany, New York. Flashbacks to his days in the U.S military during World War 2, as well as the direct post-war years, shows him to have been quite studly. He slowly began to age after he married Mona and the two had Homer, but he fell apart completely after Mona left, quickly reducing him to a shell of his former self. |
| 599 | ** Homer himself is a downplayed example. He thinks of his youth as his GloryDays, appearance-wise, but the viewers are shown that aside from a full head of hair and being much thinner, he was still kind of a goofy doofus even back then. |
| 600 | ** Moe Szyslak, in his youth, was a boxer who went by the nickname of Kid Gorgeous. Because he wasn't a good boxer and the repeated face-punching destroyed his looks, he went through the nicknames of Kid Presentable, Kid Gruesome, and finally Kid Moe. |
| 601 | ** Marge's mother Jacqueline was a dead-ringer for her daughter back in her youth, as shown with an old photo of her being arrested for indecent exposure at the beach (she was wearing an OldTimeyBathingSuit, complete with sleeves). Grampa was very impressed. |
| 602 | ** Hans Moleman is an elderly, pruny [[MeaningfulName mole-like man]], but in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E13WalkingBigAndTall Walking Big and Tall]]", a flashback from 30 years earlier shows that he was a well-groomed and fresh-looking man during his 4th term as the mayor of Springfield, even doing some stylish gymnastics while entering the stage. |
| 603 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', the fat, middle-aged Comedy Chimp used to be slim and handsome. He gets annoyed when some kids see photos of him when he was younger and refuse to believe him. |
| 604 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The List" has the ghost of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln take Kyle, who was ranked last on a list made by the girls ranking the boys' looks, to the home of an older woman named Nancy Pinkerton. Lincoln says that Nancy was very beautiful when she was younger (we never actually see what she used to look like however), and because she was handed everything and given insincere praise due to her looks, she [[BeautyBreedsLaziness never developed character]]. And now that her looks have faded, she is left with nothing of substance. |
| 605 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 606 | ** Greg, Steven's dad is currently a pudgy, balding man with a scruffy beard, but "Story for Steven" shows that he had almost literal rock-star good looks when he was younger. |
| 607 | ** His bandmate Vidalia was a slim attractive woman in her younger days, in the present she's a little wrinkled and unkempt. |
| 608 | * ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': Captain Shuggazoom, before he fell victim to the RipVanWinkle effect. |
| 609 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': |
| 610 | ** Jerry's mom, who in her younger days resembled an old-school [[Film/JamesBond Bond]] Girl. |
| 611 | ** Jerry himself as well. When he gets hit with a ray that makes him twenty years younger, two separate women on two separate occasions tell him that he looks amazing, suggesting that at the very least, he's seen as attractive in-universe. It's amazing what a full head of hair and fewer wrinkles will do for you. |
| 612 | * Both Griffin and Faragonda of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' were quite handsome in their youth. Bodywise, they still are. |
| 613 | * Nerissa and Yan Lin in ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' were very attractive once they reverted to their teenage guardian forms. |
| 614 | [[/folder]] |
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