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* In ''Film/TheyLive'', when Nada is first confronted by one of the alien agents, the agent assures him "You're as ugly to us as we are to you." That being said, the other aliens seen in the film are more than willing to [[MarsNeedsWomen have sex with human females]].

* In ''Film/TheyLive'', when Nada is first confronted by one of the alien agents, the agent assures him "You're as ugly to us as we are to you."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Band Geeks", Squidward's band ends up playing at a human football game. They find the audience disturbing, which isn't helped by a number of the people in it being some combination of flabby, shirtless, and covered in body paint. Even with the theory that Bikini Bottom was home to sea life mutated by radioactive tests, their first look at humans (other than Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy) from a distance would make them appear as fish with something wrong with them.
-->'''Patrick:''' These are some ugly looking fish.\\

** When Spongebob and Patrick meet Creator/DavidHasselhoff in the first movie, however, they harbor no problem with seeing a human being in-person.

* An arc in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' sees Ben have to do business on Anur Transyl, a planet populated by alien species inspired by classic horror movie monsters -- all of whom end up seeing Ben as an ugly monster and attack him in response.

Ever notice how, when [[HumansThroughAlienEyes aliens look at humans]], they can't help but be repulsed? [[RubberForeheadAliens Even though the only visible difference between humans and the aliens is usually]] [[Franchise/StarTrek a bunch of forehead ridges]]? Who knew that the lack of forehead ridges plunged humans straight into the UncannyValley? Maybe they think that humans resemble scalped corpses of their own kind.

Then again, [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute beauty is in the eye of the beholder]], so what is considered attractive to us might not be attractive to others. Those same forehead ridges would often make the aliens seem like freakish mutants to humans. On the other side of the coin, truly [[StarfishAliens inhuman aliens]] with huge pus-filled boils and spikes growing out of their skin have completely different ideals of beauty. So it's no surprise when the above alien is disgusted by humans, [[HumansThroughAlienEyes those]] ''disgusting'' creatures that have cuts on their head that contain calcified spikes surrounding a wriggling tendril that emits strange guttural sounds [[note]]mouth and teeth with tongue [[/note]] and a greasy mat of dead cells growing out of their head [[note]]hair[[/note]] as they move about on fleshy stilts. [[note]]legs[[/note]] Even after this, there is the idea that true ugliness is found within...one's personality.

* This is the KarmicTwistEnding of a ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode titled "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder The Eye of the Beholder]]", and to say anything else would be a spoiler.

* To Pufftail in ''Literature/{{Stray}}'', humans can't hold a candle to a cat's beauty. Humans are coarse, ugly, and oddly proportioned things.

Common variations on this trope include "[[HumansAreSmelly humans smell terrible]]" and "watching humans eat is revolting".

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'': After blasting Kabal with fire, Kintaro quips that humans are "much less ugly when they burn".

* In ''VideoGame/EarthboundBeginnings'', Giegue (more well-known as [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Giygas]]) on more than one occasion refers to humans as "ugly Earth People" during the FinalBoss battle.

* Frequently lampshaded in the {{Literature/Lensmen}} series, with its many StarfishAliens. This doesn't prevent the formation of alliances and even close friendships, where the attitude is "he's so hideous that he's positively distinguished-looking."

* In the ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' comics that ran in Magazine/NintendoPower, [[FishPeople Zora]] comments upon meeting Link that he's an "ugly little man" and his face is grotesque. Zora later gives Link a monster mask that will let him infiltrate one of Ganon's strongholds.

''Series/FraggleRock'': Uncle Matt has told Gobo that Silly Creatures (humans) are some of the ugliest things in the universe, though not as ugly as Gorgs. When he sees some trick-or-treaters—one of whom is wearing a [[Series/TheMuppetShow Kermit the Frog]] [[ProductPlacement costume]]—he thinks this is why they have disguised themselves.

''Series/FraggleRock'': Uncle Matt has told Gobo that Silly Creatures (humans) are some of the ugliest things in the universe, though not as ugly as Gorgs.

* In the first book of the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' series Zolf orders his minion Dilgear to rape the sorceress Lina Inverse. Fortunately for Lina, Dilgear is half-troll and half-werewolf, and finds human Lina repulsive.

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]'', Vorg (an alien carny) points out that he and his companion, Shirna, both look like "Tellurians" (humans) to a trio of Inter Minorian bureaucrats. One of the trio snarks back that "the resemblance ''is'' unpleasant..."

* This was the KarmicTwistEnding of a ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode called "The Eye of the Beholder", and to say anything else would be a spoiler.

** In "Life Serial", Spike takes a rather drunk Buffy out to a demon bar. The demons are appropriately grossed out by his taste in women, particularly [[FluffyTheTerrible Clem]], a demon who's covered in loose, floppy skin.
--->'''Demon 1:''' Better go Spike. Things could get ugly.\\

** In "The Time Warrior", Irongron bursts in on the Sontaran warrior Linx and catches him with his helmet off.
-->'''Linx:''' Didn't I tell you you might not find my face pleasing?
-->'''Irongron:''' Aye. And never was truer word spoken. Are they all so fair of face beyond the stars?
-->'''Linx:''' The variety of sentient life forms is infinite. Do you think your primitive features are pleasing to me?
** The gag continues in the revival episode ''Deep Breath'', when the Sontaran Strax says to the human Clara Oswald that she looks terrible, even if she is a good-looking girl.

*** "Home Soil": The ship is taken over by intelligent microscopic crystals that call humans (and every other sentient being on the ''Enterprise'') "UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER".

* In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'', when Hal Jordan is taken to Oa, he has to endure a litany of reasons given by the Guardians of the Universe as to why human beings aren't ready for {{Green Lantern Ring}}s, which run the gamut of HumansAreTheRealMonsters, HumansAreMorons, so on and so forth, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the punchline]] is this: