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"Hey, chicks dig the fuzzy dude!"
"But you're better than normal. You're ab normal."
A character, moping about being weird, eventually finds someone who likes him because he's different.
The person is usually child, under the natural assumption that kids have little prejudice, but also find anything with a strange appearance kinda cool.
Sometimes, this only happens because the person the weird person befriends is blind.
But Your Wings Are Beautiful is a subtrope. See also Ugly Cute and What Measure Is A Non Cute — and their respective Troper Tales pages.
Examples
Anime and Manga
- Happens to Lucy of Elfen Lied when, as a child, she's befriended on two occasions by other children who think she looks cool, being blissfully unaware of her frequent lapses of psychotic misanthropy and ability to tear people's limbs off with her mind. Both occasions end in tragedy for all involved, and generally causes her to slip into even deeper depths of loathing for humanity and callousness concerning harming and killing them - with one crucial exception.
- Mentioned elsewhere, C.C. of Code Geass. Centuries old (biologically 16 years old), psychic powers, green hair, and hot as hell. Freaks are AWESOME.
- In Ranma 1/2, most of Ranma's male schoolmates have stated opposition to him losing his Gender Bender curse. This is only evident in the manga, since none of them find out about it in the anime until one of the last episodes. Then again, this is probably just because they like to ogle Ranma-chan's breasts.
- Probably? Hell, it's all but explicit that the reason they object is because they like to ogle Ranma-chan; Nabiki is known to sell racy photos of "her" to just about the entire male student body, so they know that if Ranma gets cured, their porn supply disappears. The anime version also has the male members of Ranma's classroom interfere in his efforts to cure Hinako, because they're afraid that she'll be stuck in her child form and so they won't ever see her sexy adult form again.
- Nabiki also once suggested to Akane that Ranma's curse is going to be "a lot of fun on your honeymoon."
- In Negima, "freakiness" is part of the reason Setsuna never reveals that she's part demon and has wings. When she does reveal them for the first time with that admission, Asuna incredulously points out the obvious: the wings are cool.
- Even though Zelgadis of Slayers hates having ugly skin due to his nature as a chimera, Amelia thinks he's cool.
- Many FanGirls agree.
- Oddly, in a flashback in Slayers: Evolution-R it's shown how children who used to be friendly with Zelgadis now run away from him shouting "Monster!". Why oddly? Because the same children were also shown happily playing with wolf-man Dilgear and fish-man Noonsa without batting an eyelid.
- This is because Dilgear and Noonsa, while monstrous, are natural beings. Zelgadis is a chimera, an unnatural fusion of three creatures.
- What about L of Death Note? Looks Like Cesare, has weird table manners (or just manners in general), yet he still has more fangirls than Bishonen Light Yagami does.
- When Luffy and Sanji of One Piece notice that Chopper is a reindeer man that can change into a large form, they conclude he must be a monster, sending Chopper running off in shame... right before Luffy and Sanji mention that such a thing also sounds awesome.
Comic Books
- Often experienced by Nightcrawler in the X-Men franchise. Every time he feels a little put off by his appearance, he meets someone who really likes it. Usually an available woman whose fetish is, coincidentally, pointed tails, blue fur, and Cute Little Fangs.
- Beast was also popular with women much of the time, especially during his stint with the Avengers. There's just something about blue fur and Cute Little Fangs, I guess...
- Beast's fellow Avenger, Tigra the Werewoman, was equally popular with the men.
- Hellboy.
- This trope is also used in the first movie where Hellboy hangs out with a little kid. It's a little less used in the second one, where Hellboy's some combo of urban legend come true, celebrity, and feared monster.
Fan Fic
Film
- Subverted by the horror film May. The title character meets a semi-Goth filmmaker artist type who finds her Raised By Wolves quirkiness attractive. As it turns out, she screws up, badly, by trying to amp up her strangeness to the point where she just freaks him the hell out.
- Tim Burton's career thrives on this trope and the people who love it.
Live Action TV
- Hercules The Legendary Journeys does this with centaurs. In one anvilicious episode about prejudice, a maligned centaur travels into town and gets lots of hard glances even with Herc around... except for a bunch of little kids who think a guy with a horse for a butt is pretty awesome.
- Data from Star Trek The Next Generation, several times counting both in the TV series and the movies.
- And amusingly, his best friend in the series itself is blind. (Though he can "see" via a technological aid, and Data is actually a lot cooler to look at than most other people because he has this freaky electromagnetic aura and other cool stuff...)
- Lets not forget our favorite Time Lord, of Doctor Who.
- For his last couple of years of his career with a mask, WWE wrestler Kane was a face with the phrase "Freaks are cool!"
Video Games
- In the epilogue of Metal Gear Solid 4, Raiden finally meets his son, who initially recoils upon seeing him. Raiden asks if he's scared, but the kid says he thinks Raiden's like a comic book superhero. Apparently he was watching (or told about) Raiden's big scenes.
- Rider of Fate Stay Night. Despite actually being cursed for being as attractive as she is, she's still immensely shocked to hear Shirou admit she's quite beautiful. Also in reference to her eyes, which apart from the dangers they can cause are also apparently incredibly beautiful, though she also seems to feel that they are freakish in appearance.
- This seems to be the fandom's interpretation of Monoko in Yume Nikki, despite {literally) being the poster girl for Body Horror. Then again, all she does is a dance, (a CREEPY dance, but...) and you murder her, so maybe she's a bit woobiesh as well...
- The whole ga- THIS IS THE WHOLE REASON TO PLAY YUME NIKKI. Okay? There is no engaging plot, no characterization, nothing, no other reason than to look at weird stuff. C'mon. You can't even say, for example, that you're only playing it for the Bishonen, because of the two closest things to bishonen in this game (Masada and Shitai), one Looks Like Cesare with hypertropia, and the other one is a dead body. So Yeah.
Webcomics
Web Original
- In Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series, Joey Wheeler assures Mako Tsunami "You're not a freaky fish guy, you're the freaky fish guy!" And This Troper doesn't remember the rest of the speech.
Western Animation
Tabletop RPG
- Tieflings, overlapping with But Your Wings Are Beautiful. Say, factol Rhys of the Transcendent Order is goat-legged, but it's not like her portraits left everyone guessing why, o why she has Charisma 18 assigned. Especially one in The Factol's Manifesto — for Cyphers looking best when in action is normal, and calling her "Action Girl" would be an understatement.
Truth In Television
- Jerry Lewis in France.
- Ask the Transhumanists
 . They even founded their own movement: Extropianism.
- Cyberpunks.
- Goths. One of this troper's online accquaintances is a gender-bending, corset-wearing, corset-making Pale Skinned Brunette. She works with disabled kids, and is quite well liked. (Not that she wears... corsets at work, that'd be weird. At least not outside her clothes.) Surprisingly, in this troper's experience— if they're not total snots or already inured to thinking otherwise, kids really like most Goths. Independent minded grown-ups who don't mind snakes and spiders and and have blue hair and stuff? Awesome. You'll get, of course, "you look freaky", but it's usually freaky in a good way. And if you have a problem with looking the way the mundane would consider freaky, perhaps being a goth isn't the right path for you.
- I don't know about goths anymore. I think people stopped thinking "they are freaks" to thinking "they're tools". And i'm pretty sure no one likes tools.
- No, it's still true if your not an asshole.
- Just take a look at the fringe end of the tattoo, piercing and body-modification scene. We're talking transcutane implants here. Horns. Claws. People who have appeared on Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
- Not to mention the multiple people who have cut their tongue partly in half so they can look more like snakes. Apparently you can learn to cross the two halves over each other like two separate... limbs or something.
- Gives a whole new meaning to the old American Indian saying "He's talking with a split tongue".
- Allow me to introduce you to Mr. Paul Lawrence, a.k.a. The Enigma.
- And of course, there's Furry Fandom.
- The Juggalos apply this to the Monster Clown look.
- Deep-sea fish in general... ask around a bit, and most people who know what a stoplight loosejaw or a coelacanth is will start spouting trivia. And there's probably a Hagfish, Lamprey, and Leech Anti-Defamation League somewhere.
- Nerds Are Sexy and the entire modern concept of Geek Chic are both vaguely related to this, probably helped by the fact that the openly nerdy are more promenant in the media than ever before.
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