How about a man who dirties up nicely, i.e. he's bland when clean-shaven and well-dressed, but sexier when disheveled with stubble.
I can't find the location immediately, but I think this is from the Talmud (it is definitely from a traditional Jewish source)—A man vowed not to marry a certain woman because she was ugly. She was also very poor. A sage and his wife took her in hand, gave her a decent diet, cleaned her up, and dressed her nicely. The man said that if he had realized that she was that pretty, he never would have made the vow, and he was released from it so that he could marry her. The moral of the story is that Jewish women (of the time and place) were ugly only because of poverty.
Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Ambiguous Name
, started by Exxolon on Aug 29th 2014 at 1:58:24 AM
Lonely Soul
Much love to whoever put the quote from the excellent Cold Comfort Farm at the top of the page :-)
@@[=grimAuxiliatrix=]@@
Are you trying to tell me that Belle, the girl shose name MEANS beauty, had to be cleaned up before she looked good?
Edited by BigT Everyone Has An Important Job To Do
Is there a similar trope, only with a male character undergoing a radical transformation... perhaps, you take the guy who you nearly always see with a wrench in his hand, his shirt always covered in motor oil; and when he tries to impress the woman he has a crush on, he asks her out to some formal-type event, and he arrives clean-shaven, hair very neatly groomed, in a tuxedo that would make James Bond envious. He is completely unrecognizable as the guy who fixes cars for a living... Does this trope exist or no?
Hide / Show Replies