Basic Trope: A normal person looks horrifying at first.
- Straight: Everyone assumes Virgil is a brutish monster because of his menacing appearance, but he's actually a swell guy.
- Exaggerated: People run screaming from Virgil and especially his warped and mangled anatomy, even though he's rescued millions of people from dying.
- Downplayed:
- Virgil's looks are a bit intimidating, but require cosmetics to be truly terrifying.
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Virgil's a bit rough the edges, but he truly is altruistic and is aligned with the heroes.
- Virgil genuinely got his scary scars as a criminal, but reformed as part of a Heel–Face Turn long ago.
- Virgil is creepy-looking but also not a particularly Nice Guy due to grumpiness. However, he is geniunely a hero who selflessly saves civilian from disaster oftentimes and a loyal comrade of Captain Good.
- Justified:
- Virgil does his best to work off the image his face gives him - no matter what it takes.
- Virgil is a Reformed Criminal.
- Virgil is a veteran, as the scars on his face were inflicted in the Hell that is War.
- Virgil has Asperger Syndrome and his default expression unintentionally comes off as menacing to others.
- Inverted:
- Cute and Psycho
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
- Everyone loves Virgil as they don't fear him because he looks cute and innocent but he is very terrifying.
- Subverted: Virgil seems friendly enough when introduced, despite his unfortunate face, but it's soon apparent that he's a hardened mobster.
- Double Subverted:
- He's actually an undercover FBI agent working to bring an end to a criminal organization. He's very likable when he's not putting on the act.
- Alternatively, he is a hardened mobster, but one with a moral compass, lines and boundaries he won't cross, and people he won't kill.
- Parodied: The villain tries to recruit Virgil and use him as a weapon of intimidation. Virgil, naturally, isn't amused.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Virgil looks normal, or maybe even beautiful.
- Enforced: The author's been commissioned to write a story about how first impressions aren't always right.
- Lampshaded: "God, it looks like Frankenstein's Monster playing with a bunch of kittens!" "I wish you wouldn't call me an 'It'."
- Invoked: Virgil tries to present himself as this for a Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
- Exploited:
- Dante uses Virgil's intimidating appearance to spread bad rumours about him, in an attempt to ruin his reputation.
- As much as Virgil abhors violence, he's not above using his intimidating looks to get people to back down instead of fight.
- Defied: Virgil gets plastic surgery to look better.
- Discussed: "Damn bro, you look like you went to hell and back!"
- Conversed: "Poor guy. He looks so freaky that people tend to look at his face only and never see the good side of him."
- Deconstructed: Virgil develops a negative body image and isolates himself from society because everyone assumes he's a monster without getting to know him.
- Reconstructed: His friends help boost his body image and reintroduce him into society.
- Played for Laughs: Virgil isn't even ugly, heck, maybe even beautiful. Everybody acts as if he is the ugliest thing on the planet.
- Played for Drama: Virgil ends up taking his own life because so many people judge him by his looks.
Back to Face of a Thug. And don't mind the main page's intimidating appearance; It's about as friendly as a puppy.
