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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, travels somewhere where the people actually like him because he's odd looking.
This is usually a scene involving children, 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.
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.
- Even adult Lucy is hot as hell but she has freaking horns.
- In Ranma 1/2, most of Ranma's male friends 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.)
- 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.
- Furry Fandom.
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