History AdaptationalAttractiveness / LiveActionFilms

** ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' once again sees Amanda Waller get this treatment, as she's played by Creator/ViolaDavis. While still more slender and attractive than the original heavy-set Waller, she is still closer to her classic appearance compared to her appearances in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}''.

* Inverted somewhat in ''Film/TheIronLady'' - the biopic of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher. While not ugly, the stern-faced Margaret Thatcher was, to say the least, no Creator/MerylStreep, and the movie won ''two'' awards for makeup and hair in making Meryl Streep look anything like Margaret Thatcher (on a really, really good day).

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/cf8a14e1bc7e1e4f6ecac5b24817d51a/tumblr_n6tt3x0yYX1ry54nno4_1280.jpg This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" (an alternate translation is "beautiful and comely," which is closer to our modern definition of a PrettyBoy) in the [[Myth/NorseMythology original myths]]. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Karl Mordo is played by Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, a very handsome actor who has even been included in ''People Magazine'''s annual "Sexiest Man Alive" feature. This is in ''sharp'' contrast to the comics, where Mordo (especially when drawn by Creator/SteveDitko) was often depicted as an unappealing middle-aged man with a prominent widow's peak.

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/cf8a14e1bc7e1e4f6ecac5b24817d51a/tumblr_n6tt3x0yYX1ry54nno4_1280.jpg This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as Loki in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" (an alternate translation is "beautiful and comely," which is closer to our modern definition of a PrettyBoy) in the [[Myth/NorseMythology original myths]]. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/cf8a14e1bc7e1e4f6ecac5b24817d51a/tumblr_n6tt3x0yYX1ry54nno4_1280.jpg This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" (an alternate translation is "beautiful and comely," which is closer to our modern definition of a PrettyBoy) in the [[Myth/NorseMythology original myths]]. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

* ''Literature/{{She}}'' repeatedly mentions how ugly Horace Holly is, with people making "Beauty and the Beast" jokes and giving him ape-related nicknames. In film adaptations (including [[{{Film/She1963}} the 1935 film]], where he's played by Nigel Bruce, and [[{{Film/She1965}} the 1965 film]], where he's played by Creator/PeterCushing), he's never worse than ordinary-looking.

* ''Literature/{{She}}'' repeatedly mentions how ugly Horace Holly is, with people making "Beauty and the Beast" jokes and giving him ape-related nicknames. In film adaptations (including [[{{Film/She1965}} the 1965 film]], where he's played by Peter Cushing), he's never worse than ordinary-looking.

* Happens frequently in adaptations of Literature/SherlockHolmes, described in the stories as pale, gaunt and hooknosed. In this case the prettification started with the original illustrations -- Arthur Conan Doyle remarked that he had always imagined Sherlock as "uglier" than the rather dashing figure depicted by illustrator Sidney Paget; but that "perhaps from the point of view of my lady readers it was as well". In films, Holmes is often played by handsome leading men such as Creator/ChristopherLee, Rupert Everett, and Creator/RobertDowneyJr. Interestingly, the reverse is often true of Watson, who in the books is contrasted against Holmes for his skill with the ladies, but is portrayed in many adaptations as a rotund little man (except [[Film/SherlockHolmes the one with Downey Jr.]], where he's Jude Law, and [[Series/{{Sherlock}} the one with Cumberbatch]], where he's the definitely middle-aged but otherwise reasonably good-looking Creator/MartinFreeman). Mocked nicely by Creator/KateBeaton [[http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/watsonsm.png here]].

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/cf8a14e1bc7e1e4f6ecac5b24817d51a/tumblr_n6tt3x0yYX1ry54nno4_1280.jpg This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" (an alternate translation is "beautiful and comely," which is closer to our modern definition of a PrettyBoy) in the original myths. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

* Inverted in ''Film/TheIronLady'' - the biopic of UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher. While not ugly, the stern-faced Margaret Thatcher was, to say the least, no Creator/MerylStreep, and the movie won ''two'' awards for makeup and hair in making Meryl Streep look like Margaret Thatcher (on a really, really good day).

* Inverted in ''Film/TheIronLady'' - the biopic of Creator/MargaretThatcher. While not ugly, the stern-faced Margaret Thatcher was, to say the least, no Creator/MerylStreep and the movie won ''two'' awards for makeup and hair in making Meryl Streep look like Margaret Thatcher (on a really, really good day).

** InUniverse: The movie adaptation of ''The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish'' as watched by Sonmi. Tom Hanks plays the look-alike of Cavendish, looking much differently, delivers his famous "criminal abuse" line much more eloquently, and writes his biopic with a early 2000s laptop, while the real Cavendish wrote his with an old-fashioned typewriter.

* ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'':

** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Karl Mordo is played by Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, a very handsome actor who has even been included in ''People Magasine'''s annual "Sexiest Man Alive" feature. This is in ''sharp'' contrast to the comics, where Mordo (especially when drawn by Creator/SteveDitko) was often depicted as an unappealing middle-aged man with a prominent widow's peak.

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/thor/images/b/bf/Loki_ttdw_poster.png/revision/latest?cb=20150514212501 This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" (an alternate translation is "beautiful and comely," which is closer to our modern definition of a PrettyBoy) in the original myths. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[http://78.media.tumblr.com/cf8a14e1bc7e1e4f6ecac5b24817d51a/tumblr_n6tt3x0yYX1ry54nno4_1280.jpg This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" (an alternate translation is "beautiful and comely," which is closer to our modern definition of a PrettyBoy) in the original myths. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

** [[http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/JokerSoze/Loki6.jpg This is]] Comicbook/{{Loki}} in the ''[[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics. [[http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1382009/tom-hiddleston-loki.jpg?w=720 This is]] Creator/TomHiddleston as Loki in the movies. Good grief. There's a reason why he has so many fangirls. Coincidentally, the Norse god of mischief was described as "pleasing and handsome" in the original myths. Marvel later come up with a younger version of Loki ... who looks suspiciously like Tom Hiddleston.

* In the book ''Literature/{{Psycho}}'' ([[AdaptationDisplacement yes, there was a book]]), Norman Bates was fat, bespectacled, and middle-aged, unlike Anthony Perkins in the movie. In fact, he resembles his real-life inspiration, Ed Gein. The change in [[Film/{{Psycho}} the film]] was intentional, because Hitchcock thought that an attractive Norman would be easier to sympathize with.

** In ''Film/DoctorStrange'', Karl Mordo is played by Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, a very handsome actor who has even been included in ''People Magasine'''s annual "Sexiest Man Alive" feature. This is in ''sharp'' contrast to the comics, where Mordo (especially when drawn by Creator/SteveDitko) was often depicted as an unappealing middle-aged man with a prominent widow's peak.

* ''Film/ITonya'' has slender 5'6" Creator/MargotRobbie [[http://people.com/movies/margot-robbie-cant-contain-her-excitement-as-tonya-harding-joins-her-at-i-tonya-premiere/ playing curvaceous 5'1" Tonya Harding]].

** [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/18863/2312071-screen_shot_2012_04_24_at_1.36.54_pm.png Here's Aldrich Killian in the comics]]. [[hhttps://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11118/111184078/6155925-9353487055-46954.png Now here's what he looks like in]] ''Film/IronMan3''.

** [[https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/18863/2312071-screen_shot_2012_04_24_at_1.36.54_pm.png Here's Aldrich Killian in the comics]]. [[http://images.hitfix.com/photos/2413574/Aldrich-Killian-has-some-sort-of-relationship-with-Pepper-Potts.jpg Now here's what he looks like in]] ''Film/IronMan3''.

** In ''Film/DoctorStrange'', Mordo is played by Creator/ChiwetelEjiofor, a very handsome actor who was even included in ''People'''s annual "Sexiest Man Alive" feature. This is in ''sharp'' contrast to the comics, where Mordo (especially when drawn by Creator/SteveDitko) was often depicted as an unappealing middle-aged man with a prominent widow's peak.

* The book ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne2018'' describes Wade Watts as a pudgy young man with acne and messy hair. The 2018 film adaptation of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'' has him played by a slender, clear-skinned, fair-haired Creator/TyeSheridan.

* The book ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' describes Wade Watts as a pudgy young man with acne and messy hair. The 2018 film adaptation of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne'' has him played by a slender, clear-skinned, fair-haired Creator/TyeSheridan.

* ''I, Tonya'' has slender 5'6" Creator/MargotRobbie [[http://people.com/movies/margot-robbie-cant-contain-her-excitement-as-tonya-harding-joins-her-at-i-tonya-premiere/ playing curvaceous 5'1" Tonya Harding]].

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* The movie adaptation of ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' is a great example. In the books, Greg's brother Rodrick was portrayed as a [[NoodlePeople noodle person]] with a {{perpetual frown|er}}. So... why is he played by ''Film/SurvivalOfTheDead''''[='=]s'' [[http://images.wikia.com/doawk/images/4/43/DevonBostick.jpg Devon Bostick]] in the movie?