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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.
- The fact that more people didn't fall under this trope in Elfen Lied is one of the series' bigger Wall Bangers. Especially when you consider that Loli!Lucy is extremely cute with the only truly distinguishing features about her being her hair color and her horns/nekomimi.
- Mind you, she's also mentioned as acting creepily mature. Like, Dakota Fanning level creepy.
- Even adult Lucy is hot as hell,
but and she has freaking horns.
- 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.
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
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...
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
- In Teen Titans, Beast Boy's reaction on first finding out that Cyborg is half-machine: "Cool!"
- In the comics, Beast Boy himself was something of a teen idol, despite his green skin and hair. (In the comics, he lacks the Nightcrawler-esque pointy ears and Cute Little Fangs. He also starred in a TV series. Yeah, THAT Gar Logan.)
- A scene in the comics, also replicated almost verbatim in the TV series, had Cyborg— bummed because of his state —get cheered up by running into a kid with a prosthetic hand who gushes that Cyborg's parts are much cooler because they're "all shiny and stuff" ..and not, say, because he's a frikkin' super hero who saves the world.
- Gargoyles uses this trope quite a bit, most notably when Hudson befriends a blind man (though he later learns that the man figured out he wasn't human).
Literature
- In Frankenstein, the creature observes and grows fond of the de Lacey family. Eventually, he introduces himself to the blind father, but the rest of the family returns before he can explain his form to the father, and they attack him as a monster.
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.
- 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.
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