Line #18 PlayingWith/ButterFace


1	'''Basic Trope''': A female character has an attractive body, but a repulsive face.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice is a female with a pleasant body, but her face is a total turn-off.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has a body that would easily make her a [[MsFanservice lust object to any male]] ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer and female!]]) onlookers, but as soon as they see [[NightmareFace her... um, front]], [[BrainBleach they have a hard time sleeping]].
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice’s body is conventionally attractive while her face is either “ugly hot” or “ugly cute” or just plain.
6	** Alice has a "strong jaw" that gives her a vaguely masculine appearance.
7	** Alice's face is moderately conventionally attractive but with major flaws (huge teeth/small mouth combination, for example), paired with a completely attractive body.
8	** Alice's face is frequently made unattractive by her frequent {{Wild Take}}s.
9	* '''Justified''':
10	** Alice was a former MsFanservice ActionGirl who had her face smashed in during a fight.
11	** Where Alice lives, plastic surgery is expensive or doesn't exist, but exercise is cheap.
12	* '''Inverted''': Alice has an unpleasant body shape, but an attractive face.
13	* '''Gender Inverted''':
14	** Bob has the best male physique in the series, but his face is {{gonk}}y.
15	** Bob is a PrettyBoy, but while he's still a BigBeautifulMan, many think that losing the pot belly would be a great improvement.
16	* '''Subverted''':
17	** Alice has plastic surgery...
18	** It's revealed to be makeup for a film she's doing; once it's all off, Alice is quite beautiful...
19	** Alice actually does have an attractive face, making the Butter Face trope just a rumor.
20	* '''Double Subverted''':
21	** ... which goes terribly wrong.
22	** ... she then gets into an accident that mutilates her face.
23	** ....paired with a turkey neck, hence she wears sleeveless turtlenecks all the time. To flaunt her arms, hide her neck.
24	* '''Parodied''':
25	** The audience never sees Alice's face, which is always hidden by her bulky hair-do, veils or other objects. Characters in the show have their eyes melt out or equally exaggerated reactions--but are fine a few minutes later.
26	** Alice is a female with a pleasant body, [[NonHumanHead but her head is]] [[VisualPun literally]] [[NonHumanHead a block of butter.]]
27	* '''Zig Zagged''': Everybody has different tastes: as the story is told from the first-person POV and by different people, Alice's attractiveness varies on the narrator.
28	** Alice's face looks okay from a distance, but up close you can see her extremely weak chin/turkey neck, overbite, huge teeth, and tiny mouth (causing her to talk with a very wet lisp because she can't close her mouth all the way). However, in this universe, that's considered not only attractive, but the ideal and everyone lusts after her. But the narrator has "strange tastes" and thinks she has a ButterFace anyway and is ridiculed endlessly for it. But he ends up changing his mind after getting to know her better. But they later move somewhere that has beauty standards more in line with our ideals, and when people comment on Alice's butter face, she assumes they're just trying to keep her humble about being "blessed with good looks", leaving them confused when she blushes and tells them they're so sweet when they mention her overbite and turkey neck.
29	* '''Averted''':
30	** Alice is beautiful in both the body and face.
31	** Or just plain {{Gonk}} all over.
32	** Or neither, just an [[GirlNextDoor average]] PlainJane.
33	* '''Enforced''': The creators want to pull a BaitAndSwitch ForTheLulz.
34	* '''Lampshaded''': "How could she get the genes for a cute bod but the genes for an ugly face at the same time?!"
35	* '''Invoked''': Alice, [[SoBeautifulItsACurse tired of being hit on and even nearly raped,]] intentionally disfigures her own face or puts on a horrific mask so guys will stop pursuing her once they get a good look at it.
36	* '''Exploited''': Alice delights in her facial features being repulsive to men, either because she loves stringing them along only to kill their boners or she uses it to her advantage to stave off potential rape threats.
37	* '''Defied''': "So what if she doesn't have a pretty face? I still wanna bang her hot body."
38	* '''Discussed''': "Why do women look hot in the body, but not in the face?"
39	* '''Conversed''': "How many times do the writers think they can pull that off without being unrealistic?! There's always a link between the face's beauty and the body's, isn't there?"
40	* '''Implied''': The audience never sees Alice's face, which is always hidden by her bulky hairdo, veils or other objects. Characters in the show were shown freaked out upon seeing Alice face-to-face.
41	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice isn't stupid. She knows what about her is driving men away and becomes depressed because men always love everything about her except her face. She tries to get plastic surgery to fix it but regardless of its success she feels she's lost something important about herself along the way. The story turns out to be AnAesop about how beauty is only skin-deep and [[BeYourself you shouldn't change anything about yourself solely to please someone else.]]
42	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is aware her face is a turn-off to most men, and sets out to find the one man who will accept her warts and all.
43	* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice never takes a hint and always tries to chase after any man who follows her lecherously till she looks back at him.
44	* '''Played for Drama''': Alice has been plagued by disgusted reactions to her face nearly her whole life, and it's really wearing on her. The joke got old a long time ago.
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Context PlayingWith / ButterFace