History Main / MirrorCrackingUgly

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': While Horace Horsecollar isn't normally unpleasant to look at, his [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pjimage_20.jpg costumed appearance]] as [[Literature/UncleTomsCabin Simon Legree]] in "Mickey's Mellerdrammer" gives him the looks to match [[HateSink his role's personality]] thanks to the permanent sneer on his face. This ugly appearance causes a backstage mirror to break when he snarls into it.

* Occurs with the ogres in Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' book series.

* Something of an InformedAttribute in the ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'' series of games. One of the attributes you can get is termed, for obvious reasons, "Ugly" with the description "The Mirrors in your house didn't break. ''[[ExaggeratedTrope They committed suicide.]]'' When your wife saw you, she screamed and swam across the Atlantic to flee you." In ''Tropico 4'', another addition is made [[CrossesTheLineTwice "The Middle Eastern leaders like your resemblance to a Camel, and thus enjoy meeting you."]] This gives an increase in relations with the Middle East, depending on how ugly you are.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' has this happen when he smiles after brushing his teeth at the beginning of his first movie. Though considering as he prides himself on being disgusting and ugly, he probably [[InsultBackfire takes this as a compliment]].

->''Mirrors don't crack when I look in them. They scream and run away.''

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': While Horace Horsecollar isn't normally unpleasant to look at, his [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pjimage_20.jpg costumed appearance]] as [[Literature/UncleTomsCabin Simon Legree]] in "Mickey's Mellerdrammer" gives him the looks to match [[HateSink his role's personality]] thanks to the permanent sneer on his face. When he snarls in front of a mirror backstage, the mirror cracks from his appearance.

* Something of an InformedAttribute in the ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'' series of games. One of the attributes you can get is termed, for obvious reasons, "Ugly" with the description "The Mirrors in your house didn't break. ''[[UpToEleven They committed suicide.]]'' When your wife saw you, she screamed and swam across the Atlantic to flee you." In ''Tropico 4'', another addition is made [[CrossesTheLineTwice "The Middle Eastern leaders like your resemblance to a Camel, and thus enjoy meeting you."]] This gives an increase in relations with the Middle East, depending on how ugly you are.
* In ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3]]'', Mileena's Friendship features her removing her mask and looking at her hideous face in a mirror, which then shatters (followed by [[BigBad Shao Kahn]] saying "[[SarcasmMode Pretty.]]").
* One of the new enemies introduced in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon2'' are the Widows, a ghoul-like zombie who holds a broken mirror. Her idle animation has her stare at it, clearly lamenting on her disfigured changes.

** In the episode "Beddy Bye", Cosmo, who had temporarily became horribly disfigured from SleepDeprivation, not only cracks Timmy's mirror, he also cracks the Great Wall of China and causes a herd of antelopes far away to stop grazing near the end of the episode when his ugliness reaches its zenith.
** In the episode "Bad Heir Day", Crocker cracks his mirror when he's contemplating how to get an heir.

* In one scene of ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'', [[FaceOfAThug Saejima]] tries to practice his smiling, but the mirror cracks, making him smash it in anger.

* In ''Mad Mad Mad Monsters'', a prequel to ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty'', the Monster's bride at one point cracks a mirror by looking at it.

* Done with Mike Myers in ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'' when his [[BritishTeeth smile]] caused his rear view mirror to crack.

* In ''Animation/SweetSea'', after retrieving the Royal Necklace, Sheeba models it in front of a mirror, which immediately cracks into pieces.

** In the episode "Beddy Bye", Cosmo, who had temporarily became [[TheGrotesque hideous]] from SleepDeprivation, not only cracks Timmy's mirror, he also cracks the Great Wall of China and causes a herd of antelopes far away to stop grazing near the end of the episode when his ugliness reaches its zenith.

* The ''VideoGame/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'' animated series episode "Hairy Zaria" has Zaria's mirror crack when she looks into it after she is made hairy by Tak's magic.