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* ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'': The Weavers take to this trope to the point that it is their whole worldview: [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Weavers do not have morality, they have only aesthetics]]. Unfortunately, as man-sized spiders who can see and move across time, space and dimensional barriers as easily as humans can see and walk across a street, their sense of beauty is well and truly beyond non-Weavers. At one point in the novel a passing Weaver saves the protagonists from an ambush by jettisoning them halfway across the city, where the protagonist finds an old newspaper [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat with a letter to the editor in it from the Weaver explaining that it finds his future actions beautiful]]. The Weaver also removed one ear from everyone who was present, both on the heroes' side and the ambushers (with the exception of one ambusher who the Weaver apparently thought looked better symmetrical).
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* ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' seems especially fond of averting and subverting this. Vlad Tepes and Sultan Mehmed are given physical descriptions that sound very attractive, but the former is an utterly repulsive human being while the latter flip-flops between MagnificentBastard and ChaoticNeutral. Elizabeth Bathory, the most sympathetic character in the book (though that's not saying much), sounds plain by her own description, or even ugly. Vlad is in love with her, though, so he only sees her as beautiful.
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* ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' seems especially fond of averting and subverting this. Vlad Tepes and Sultan Mehmed are given physical descriptions that sound very attractive, but the former is an utterly repulsive human being while the latter flip-flops between MagnificentBastard and ChaoticNeutral.chaotic. Elizabeth Bathory, the most sympathetic character in the book (though that's not saying much), sounds plain by her own description, or even ugly. Vlad is in love with her, though, so he only sees her as beautiful.
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* Voltaire famously penned a rather scathing poem, "Marquise", dedicated to a vain aristocrat who had spurned his advances because he was too old for her, despite being one of the smartest, wittiest guys of his time. The gist of the poem is "[[TakeThat So I'm old and wrinkled. You will be too, sooner than you think]]". In a double subversion, Tristan Bernard later wrote a last stanza to the poem, his imagined answer from the Marquess : "But until then old man, I'm 26, and fuck you too". In those terms, because French poetry is hardcore.
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* Voltaire famously penned a rather scathing poem, "Marquise", dedicated to a vain aristocrat who had spurned his advances because he was too old for her, despite being one of the smartest, wittiest guys of his time. The gist of the poem is "[[TakeThat So I'm old and wrinkled. You will be too, sooner than you think]]". In a double subversion, Tristan Bernard later wrote a last stanza to the poem, his imagined answer from the Marquess : Marquess: "But until then old man, I'm 26, and fuck you too". In those terms, because French poetry is hardcore.
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** Shoko Makinohara counts as well. Just like the main characters she is a paragon of kindness and altruism, and her way of living, which she teaches to Sakuta to begin with, is to be a little bit kinder every day. And yes, she goes from a cute kid to a very beautiful teenage girl.
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* ''Literature/RascalDoesNotDreamOfBunnyGirlSenpai'': Female heroine Mai Sakurajima is considered very beautiful and attractive in-series and out. She's also an immensely kind-hearted, selfless and forgiving individual. Sakuta's little sister Kaede (who is fond of her just as Mai herself is fond of Kaede) says she wishes she could be just like her for her beauty and kindness.
** Really, while there's quite the focus on Mai's inside-out beauty, pretty much all the characters in the series can be considered as reasonably attractive, and all in all they're very pleasant and kind-hearted individuals.
** Really, while there's quite the focus on Mai's inside-out beauty, pretty much all the characters in the series can be considered as reasonably attractive, and all in all they're very pleasant and kind-hearted individuals.
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* The Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar setting generally embraces this as long as the beauty comes 'naturally'. Human heroes may be plain, but just as many are drop dead gorgeous, with special mention going to the endlessly self-sacrificing [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy Vanyel Ashkevron]] and his flamboyant descendent Firesong k'Treva, who are in for frequent rapturous statements about their good looks, though Firesong is also vain and so is flawed. The setting is also known for Companions, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels in the shape of]] {{Cool Horse}}s, who are universally [[AngelicBeauty dazzlingly white and beautiful]], all the better to sway people into accepting their goodness. There are also gryphons, which were [[CreatingLifeIsAwesome designed by a mage with artistic sensibilities]] and ''know'' it, and are almost universally brave and heroic.
** There are some regular humans, and sometimes monsters, who are naturally both beautiful and evil, but they're exceptions. Anyone who ''makes'' themselves beautiful, from civillian women to powerful mages, is at best [[RealWomenDontWearDresses empty-headed and frivolous]], at worst monstrous for it - when Vanyel meets [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Krebain]] he feels betrayed and horrified by the violation of BeautyEqualsGoodness until he rationalizes that Krebain's looks are [[MakeupIsEvil the result of artifice, like face-painting but moreso]].
** There are some regular humans, and sometimes monsters, who are naturally both beautiful and evil, but they're exceptions. Anyone who ''makes'' themselves beautiful, from civillian women to powerful mages, is at best [[RealWomenDontWearDresses empty-headed and frivolous]], at worst monstrous for it - when Vanyel meets [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Krebain]] he feels betrayed and horrified by the violation of BeautyEqualsGoodness until he rationalizes that Krebain's looks are [[MakeupIsEvil the result of artifice, like face-painting but moreso]].
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* In "[[Literature/TheSilmarillion The Silmarillion]]" the Elf Prince (later Elf King) Fëanor is described as being quite good-looking, fitting in with his quality as TheAce among elves. However he is very arrogant, hot-blooded and obsessive, and comes across as a jerk, his actions, such as the kinslaying of the Teleri, leading to the Noldor being cursed for centuries.
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* In "[[Literature/TheSilmarillion The Silmarillion]]" the Silmarillion]]"
** The Elf Prince (later Elf King) Fëanor is described as being quite good-looking, fitting in with his quality as TheAce among elves. However he is very arrogant, hot-blooded and obsessive, and comes across as a jerk, his actions, such as the kinslaying of the Teleri, leading to the Noldor being cursed forcenturies.centuries.
** Sauron abuses the heck out of this trope in the Second Age, first as Annatar where he uses his fair form to hoodwink the smiths of Eregion into accepting his help and when he manipulates Ar-Pharazôn and effectively takes over Númenor. Thankfully he loses this form in the wreck of Númenor and is left with only his Dark Lord form.
** The Elf Prince (later Elf King) Fëanor is described as being quite good-looking, fitting in with his quality as TheAce among elves. However he is very arrogant, hot-blooded and obsessive, and comes across as a jerk, his actions, such as the kinslaying of the Teleri, leading to the Noldor being cursed for
** Sauron abuses the heck out of this trope in the Second Age, first as Annatar where he uses his fair form to hoodwink the smiths of Eregion into accepting his help and when he manipulates Ar-Pharazôn and effectively takes over Númenor. Thankfully he loses this form in the wreck of Númenor and is left with only his Dark Lord form.
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* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' short story "There are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden", the First Doctor and Dodo have arrived on what appears to Dodo to be an opressively organic planet, with unsettling dead-flesh canyons and lumpen creatures that radiate sadness and horror. The Doctor says there's something very wrong, but whenever Dodo says it's pretty obvious what's wrong, he snaps that she's missing the point and should keep an open mind. Wandering away from him, she follows a path where the opressive walls begin to be streaked with radiant crystals, and eventually finds herself in a beautiful crystal grotto inhabited by tiny fairy-like creatures. The lumpen creature then staggers in and splits open to reveal another of the fairies. Dodo tells the Doctor she now understands; this is a planet of metamorphosis and you can't have the beauty without the ugliness. [[spoiler: The Doctor tells her she's ''still'' not getting it, and to her horror, begins smashing up the grotto. Dodo is even more confused and upset until the Doctor places the TARDIS in orbit around the planet so she can see what it really looks like: a planet of giant flowers ... one of which has a horrible crystaline infection]].
