History AdaptationalAttractiveness / LiveActionTV

** Played with in regards to Farouk, a.k.a. the Shadow King. In the comics, his human vessel is [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8jvuIz7nElXxG-roXLOqJcAxZMuZBKqPgqg&usqp=CAU Amahl Farouk,]] an obese Kingpin-like Egyptian man and his "real" form is a nightmarish monster. In the show, Farouk's real form is a terrifying, obese HumanoidAbomination, but his human form is Creator/NavidNegahban, who isn't obese.

* ''Series/Legion2017'':

* ''Series/{{Legion}}'':
** David Haller in the comics has had [[DependingOnTheArtist multiple different artists]] draw him but he usually isn’t particularly attractive. In the show he’s [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0RqeTPTOzbNz3kBc-Zv3ea3cpiOgf7wLLGA&usqp=CAU played]] by the very handsome Creator/DanStevens.
** Played with in regards to Farouk aka the Shadow King. In the comics his human vessel is [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8jvuIz7nElXxG-roXLOqJcAxZMuZBKqPgqg&usqp=CAU Amahl Farouk]] an obese Kingpin-like Egyptian man and his “real” form is a nightmarish monster. In the show Farouk’s real form is a terrifying obese HumanoidAbomination but his human form is Creator/AubreyPlaza [[spoiler: and later Creator/JemaineClement]].

* ''Series/{{Loki}}'':

* The American version of ''Series/TheInbetweeners'' has Will upgraded from plain old {{Nerd}} to HollywoodNerd and turned Neil into a LongHairedPrettyBoy. Inverted with Jay, whose actor looks like he'd be more suited to playing [[ButtMonkey Big]] [[FatIdiot John]].

** Popclaw in the comics is hardly beautiful, being a [[https://moviecomicswhoswho.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/popclawcomics2.jpg?w=300&h=186 sickly looking goth chick]] similar to Calisto from ''ComicBook/XMen'', while in the show, she's played the gorgeous [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/amazons-the-boys/images/e/ec/Popclaw_Claws.png/revision/latest?cb=20201124004701 Brittany Allen]] and is a professional nude model InUniverse.

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' has Gomez. In the original illustrations, he's a pretty gross-looking dude: short, pudgy, crooked teeth, stringy hair, pencil mustache, and a face permanently in a half-lidded sneer. In the TV show, he's played by Creator/JohnAstin, who's at worst average-looking and definitely a lot more lively and approachable than Gomez's illustration. The movies continued the trend with Creator/RaulJulia, who outright complained in his heyday about being typecast as a LatinLover.

** Queen Calanthe, [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSSm5YhaFcwCWbLAJGyV68A29N2Ru5UfTcWrQ&usqp=CAU in the book]] she’s an older woman with ashen grey hair. [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRhXPjU1b-2OdX3dhALmcrTaUqp7eFTzs3aDw&usqp=CAU In the show]] she’s played by the younger and beautiful Johdi May who has dark hair. [[PlayingWithATrope Then again]] Calanthe despite her age is described as beautiful in the ''The Last Wish'' and it's only the video game that depicts her as old, meaning the show was accurate.

** Poirot himself is not described in flattening terms in the books as apart from his weight, the books makes note of his egg-shaped head and even Christie herself ([[CreatorsPest having gotten sick of him]]) once described him as a "creep". In the series Poirot is played by the very dapper and [[BigBeautifulMan pleasantly stocky]] Creator/DavidSuchet, he's also less egotistical than his book counterpart which helps..

** Popclaw in the comics is hardly beautiful, being a sickly looking goth chick similar to Calisto from ''ComicBook/XMen'', while in the show, she's played the gorgeous [[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/171/1712892/3726274-16.jpg Brittany Allen]] and is a professional nude model InUniverse.
** [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8NmYUC23VjOM4K0HtIRsZXPjy_toSxCir0w&usqp=CAU Lamplighter]] is played by the nice looking Creator/ShawnAshmore, which is a big step up from comic version, who's a [[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/171/1712892/3726268-13.jpg hideous shit-covered zombie]].

** In the ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 Flash]]'' reboot, Captain Cold is played by the very yummy-looking Creator/WentworthMiller. They may have gotten the idea from the ComicBook/{{New 52}} version of Cold, who was reimagined as a [[WhiteHairBlackHeart White-Haired Pretty Boy]] before ''Comicbook/ForeverEvil'' brought him closer to his classic look.

** Mother, in the comic is a more traditional RobotMaid who is missing [[https://bamsmackpow.com/files/2019/06/uaho7ma.jpg a distressing amount of her body like biology dummy]]. In the show Mother [[NamedByTheAdaptation aka Grace]] is played by [[https://img1.looper.com/img/gallery/how-the-umbrella-academy-season-2-explains-graces-true-origins/intro-1596303620.jpg the very beautiful]] Jordan Claire Robbins who seems human at [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots first and second glance]].

** Klaus is the most [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UBMA8FbmT1o/maxresdefault.jpg prominent example]]. In the comic he's got pale skin, a hook nose and is described as looking like a extra in a Creator/IngmarBerman film. In the show Klaus is played by Robert Sheehan who’s got a normal skin, normal nose and often walks around in little clothing as a MrFanservice.

* In the original book for''Literature/{{NOS4A2}}'', Charlie Manx is described as having weasel-like features and an overbite. For the television adaptation he's being played by Creator/ZacharyQuinto.

* In the 1980s CBS series ''Series/{{Beauty and the Beast|1987}}'', Vincent was made to look beastly with heavy makeup and a long mane of hair. In [[Series/BeautyAndTheBeast2012 the 2012 CW reboot]], incent is given a monstrous alternate form a la ComicBook/{{the Incredible Hulk}}, but the majority of the time he's onscreen his appearance is that of a normal human man with a thin scar on one cheek—and he loses the scar after Season 1.

* ''Series/{{Loki}}'': [[spoiler: In the comics, He Who Remains has an emaciated, almost skeletal appearance due to having been alive for an unfathomable length of time. In the TV show, as a result of being a CompositeCharacter with Immortus, he's played by a very handsome, youthful looking Creator/JonathanMajors, though dialogue indicates he is still significantly [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]].]]

* ''Series/TheBoys'':
** Frenchie in the [[ComicBook/TheBoys comic]] is [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShMWjGv3hwxYNmrnGYx4Aj1meg67xYzHZLjg&usqp=CAU far from good looking]], in the show he’s played the handsome [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlqIOnvFxzY0o8L7FPdy0DOqVddGdv-bgj9g&usqp=CAU Tomer Capon]].
** Cleverly played with in regards in the Hughie, in the comics he’s exaggerated caricature of a bald Creator/SimonPegg. In the show he’s played by the good looking [[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/171/1712892/3726270-2.jpg Jack Quaid]] as a CastingGag Simon Pegg plays his dad Hugh.
** Billy Butcher is decent looking in the comics, but in the show he’s played the extremely rugged Creator/KarlUrban.
** Popclaw in the comics is hardly beautiful being a sickly looking goth chick similar to Calisto from ''ComicBook/XMen'', in the show she’s played the gorgeous [[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/171/1712892/3726274-16.jpg Brittany Allen]] and is professional nude model InUniverse.
** [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT8NmYUC23VjOM4K0HtIRsZXPjy_toSxCir0w&usqp=CAU Lamplighter]] is played by the nice looking Creator/ShawnAshmore which is a big step up from comic version who’s a [[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/171/1712892/3726268-13.jpg hideous shit-covered zombie]].

* Creator/TheBBC's Adaptation of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/TippingTheVelvet'' cast Creator/RachelStirling as Nan, who was so plain in the book that she passed successfully as a boy for years on the street.

* Creator/TheBBC's Adaptation of Sarah Waters' ''Literature/TippingTheVelvet'' cast Rachel Stirling (daughter of Dame Creator/DianaRigg) as Nan, who was so plain in the book that she passed successfully as a boy for years on the street.

** Klaus is the most [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UBMA8FbmT1o/maxresdefault.jpg prominent example]]. In the comic he's got pale skin, a hook nose and is described as looking like a extra in a Ingmar Berman film. In the show Klaus is played by Robert Sheehan who’s got a normal skin, normal nose and often walks around in little clothing as a MrFanservice.

* In the CBC miniseries of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', in which Anne is supposedly unattractive, she's played by ''Creator/MeganFollows''.

* In the 1980s CBS series ''Series/{{Beauty and the Beast|1987}}'', Vincent was made to look beastly with heavy makeup and a long mane of hair. In [[Series/BeautyAndTheBeast2012 the 2012 CW reboot]], Vincent is made to look beastly by...giving him a thin scar on one cheek. That's it. Seriously. No extra hair, no claws, nothing to indicate that he's anything other than a hot human man with a scar even less defacing than Gerard Butler's Phantom sunburn. He's supposed to have a more monstrous alternate form a la the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, but even his alternate form isn't ''that'' beastly and it doesn't do much to change the fact that he looks like a male model 90% of the time, which makes the show come across as less like "Beauty and the Beast" and more like "[[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9wnnlrtiN1rea6qyo1_1280.png Beauty and the Really Really Ridiculously Good Looking]]". To top all this off, he loses the scar after season 1 because apparently even that tiny concession to the original Beast's ugliness was just too much for the show's producers to maintain.

** From little what we see of Lamplighter, he looks like a regular superhero, [[https://gamespot1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/171/1712892/3726268-13.jpg not a shit-covered zombie]].

** Actually [[AdaptationalUgliness inverted]] with female werewolf Angua von Überwald in 2010 ''Film/GoingPostal'' series while Ingrid Bolsø Berda is by no means ugly, she’s done up to [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR7zj8VO2IDTJupHEXf5XREzewu34taG7jiGWvrgtoFM89wQ4dg look supernatural with pale skin and shadows under eyes]]. Which is a far cry from the [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/06/bc/27/06bc275849058fbb4a3c829660e769a7.jpg shining beauty of the books]].