Trope image - while I don't have any alternative one to give you - perhaps should be changed? At least this part:
"The Beautiful Elite aren't just beautiful. Their whole life is beautiful. They are more fashionable than anyone else, more sophisticated and charming than anyone else, and are usually fabulously rich. Their clothes are all way too expensive for you to ever own. They almost always live in a Big Fancy House that is so clean and well organized they look like they are Living in a Furniture Store. "
...Applies in no way to the cast of xxxHolic. Their lives are far from amazing and none of them are particularly rich, and only Doumeki lives in a big fancy house... Beause it is also a shrine. Again, sorry I can't really think of a proper example to replace it, but surely someone could thought of a better one.
Re cut: This page has 350 inbounds, please don't cut. I will have to restore it otherwise.
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Why is this a locked, empty page? Why not a redirect to The Beautiful Elite?
Suggestion: can we change the title of this trope to World of Bishonen?
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Considering it's widely applicable outside anime and manga, I don't see the value of giving it an anime/manga specific name. "The Beautiful People" is a common phrase that means exactly what this trope implies, while there are pleny of people who have no idea what the word "Bishonen" means. Aside from which, this trope applies to beautiful women just as much as beautiful men.
For the purpose of this trope, what is the distinction between "jerkass" and "evil"? It doesn't feel like a meaningful separation.