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* ''Webcomic/WoodenPlankStudios'' had a PlayedForLaughs case in [[Characters/MetroidMetroidPrimeAndDarkSamus Dark Samus]]. In the ''Videogame/MetroidPrime'' games, she's an UpliftedAnimal living in and off one of Samus's old armors. One strip makes her drop the armor and reveal a "[[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Purple Skinned]] [[https://www.woodenplankstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/comic_2021_metroidmed_8.jpg Samus]]" instead.

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* ''Webcomic/WoodenPlankStudios'' had a PlayedForLaughs case in [[Characters/MetroidMetroidPrimeAndDarkSamus Dark Samus]].Samus. In the ''Videogame/MetroidPrime'' games, she's an UpliftedAnimal living in and off one of Samus's old armors. One strip makes her drop the armor and reveal a "[[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Purple Skinned]] [[https://www.woodenplankstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/comic_2021_metroidmed_8.jpg Samus]]" instead.
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** Gromozeka still has several arms like in [[Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture the books]], but at least he has two legs instead of three, two eyes instead of several rows of many small ones, and doesn't have a trunk.

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** Gromozeka still has several arms like in [[Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture the books]], but at least he has two legs instead of three, two eyes instead of several rows of many small ones, and doesn't have a bulbous nose instead of a trunk.
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->[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 Lon Chaney's Phantom in the 1925 silent]] had a hideously damaged face, his mouth a lipless rictus, his eyes off-center in gouged-out sockets. When Christine tore off his mask, she was horrified, and so was the audience. In the Lloyd Webber version, now filmed by Creator/JoelSchumacher, the mask is more like a fashion accessory, and the Phantom's "good" profile is so chiseled and handsome that the effect is not an object of horror but a kinky babe magnet.

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->[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 ->''"[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 Lon Chaney's Phantom in the 1925 silent]] had a hideously damaged face, his mouth a lipless rictus, his eyes off-center in gouged-out sockets. When Christine tore off his mask, she was horrified, and so was the audience. In the Lloyd Webber version, now filmed by Creator/JoelSchumacher, the mask is more like a fashion accessory, and the Phantom's "good" profile is so chiseled and handsome that the effect is not an object of horror but a kinky babe magnet."''
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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a gorgeous princess that even [[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]] would want to have her terminated.

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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain short and homely. stocky, with a trapezoidal build and a wild, carefree personality similar to the Bad Piggies. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a gorgeous princess that even [[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]] would want to have her terminated.calmer large-eyed GadgeteerGenius bird with slender legs and GirlishPigtails.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Anyone}}'': In canon Midoriya Inko is overweight due to stress eating. In this fic, she is fit and muscular with her hair styled in a bob cut. The exact reason for this difference is never give, but she has a much different lifestyle in this fic. Instead of a (maybe) stay at home mom (we're never told what her job is in canon if she has one), here she is a world-famous chef working in five star restaurants all around the world.
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->''In the book, of course, [Umbridge] is described as very ugly and toad-like. And people say, "You'd be great for that part!" [[SarcasmMode Thanks very much.]]''
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->''In ->[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 Lon Chaney's Phantom in the book, of course, [Umbridge] is described as very ugly 1925 silent]] had a hideously damaged face, his mouth a lipless rictus, his eyes off-center in gouged-out sockets. When Christine tore off his mask, she was horrified, and toad-like. And people say, "You'd be great for so was the audience. In the Lloyd Webber version, now filmed by Creator/JoelSchumacher, the mask is more like a fashion accessory, and the Phantom's "good" profile is so chiseled and handsome that part!" [[SarcasmMode Thanks very much.]]''
the effect is not an object of horror but a kinky babe magnet.
-->-- '''Creator/ImeldaStaunton''' on playing '''[[Literature/HarryPotter Professor Umbridge]]'''
'''Creator/RogerEbert''', [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041221/REVIEWS/41201007 review]] of the 2004 film version of ''[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004 The Phantom of the Opera]]''
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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a gorgeous princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]]'' would want to have her terminated.

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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a gorgeous princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} [[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]]'' Grimhilde]] would want to have her terminated.
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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]]'' would want to have her terminated.

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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking gorgeous princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]]'' would want to have her terminated.
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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs }} Queen Grimhilde]]'' would want to have her terminated.

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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs }} ''[[{{WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs}} Queen Grimhilde]]'' would want to have her terminated.
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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking princess.

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* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking princess.princess that even ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs }} Queen Grimhilde]]'' would want to have her terminated.
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* In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheGreatCrossing'', TheChiefsDaughter is unattractive and pudgy, and [[PleaseDumpMe escaping marriage to her]] is the reason the Gauls decide it's time to go back home. In the film adaptation, ''WesternAnimation/AsterixConquersAmerica'', she is an IndianMaiden with the body proportions of a bathing suit model and a much prettier face, and [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul Obelix is understandably sad to leave her]].
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns:'' Gordon's assistant, Officer Merkel, undergoes a variant of this: he's TheFaceless in the comic (where his face is always framed in the shadows), but in the movies his features are visible, and he's one of the more conventionally handsome characters.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'', MafiaPrincess Sofia Falcone goes from the brutish BrawnHilda she was in the comics to an AmazonianBeauty with softer features.
* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds2'', Silver is described as plain and homely. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2 movie version]] turns her into a nice looking princess.
* Downplayed in Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Quasimodo is upgraded from hideous to UglyCute, though he still has his book appearance including the wart-like growth over his left eye. Presumably, if they added the little details of how ugly he is, it would be a pain on the animators, and would have scared the children in a movie that's already pretty dark to begin with.
* Most translations of the ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' poem describe Grendel's mother as some sort of ugly troll or ogress. In the [[WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf 2007}} animated movie]], she's a nearly-naked Creator/AngelinaJolie in full InkSuitActor mode.
* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'':
** Shrek, while rude, crude, and ogreish, isn't really hideous. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Shrekcover.jpg In the book it was based on...]]
** Similarly, Fiona, in both her human and [[CuteMonsterGirl ogre]] forms, is more attractive than the hideous princess from the book.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', Gurgi is changed from a hideous gorilla-like monster in [[Literature/TheChroniclesofPrydain the original books]] to a cute badger-like animal.
* ''Literature/TheLorax'' has the Once-ler, who is [[TheFaceless a pair of green arms]] in both the book and the cartoon adaptation; in the latter, he can be assumed to be middle-aged going by his deep voice. In [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012 the 2012 film]], he's a tall, cute 20-something man[[note]]only in the flashbacks; in the present, he is an old man[[/note]] with big blue eyes (in contrast to the creepy yellow ones he had in the book), voiced by Creator/EdHelms.
* In the ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' movie, King Oberon looks younger and slimmer than in the books. His beard's less bushy, too. Jack Frost also has this to a lesser degree.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'':
** Baymax was monstrous-looking in the comics. In the movie, he is a [[CuteMachines Cute Machine]].
** While Hiro Takachiho wasn't ugly in the comics, Hiro [[AdaptationNameChange Hamada]] is designed to look more adorable.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': Pinocchio's appearance in the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Pinocchio.jpg illustrations of the original book resembled a real puppet]]. In the Disney film, Pinocchio resembles a normal living child more then he does a puppet; with only his clearly wooden limbs and stub-shaped nose giving his origin away.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio 1992}}'', Mangiafuoco doesn't have the threatening looks of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio his book counterpart]] and has a rather cute appearance. In the cover he is not as cute, but is far from the scary Mangiafuoco of the book.
* Exaggerated with ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameGoldenFilms'''s version of Quasimodo is HollywoodHomely at worst. He's tall, muscular, has well-combed long hair with a handsome and spotless face... The only part about him that resemble the book character is his hunched back, which is [[InformedDeformity a pronounced slouch]] at most. [[spoiler:He later stands up straight and becomes a {{hunk}}]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DorothyMeetsOzmaOfOz'': Uncle Henry and Aunt Em are less weathered and more youthful than described as in the book.
* ''WesternAnimation/WonderWoman2009'': Etta Candy in the comics is usually depicted on the heavier side, varying from being just very overweight and boisterous in the early comics, to a ShrinkingViolet, BigBeautifulWoman in the later ones. In the animated movie however, she has an ImpossibleHourglassFigure, and is extremely flirtatious.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'':
** Doctor Otto Octavius aka ComicBook/DoctorOctopus is generally a pudgy man with a ugly scowling face. [[spoiler: Olivia Octavius however besides some frizzy hair with goofy glasses is a slim, sexy scientist. This probably a result of combining Otto with his canon DistaffCounterpart Carolyn Trainer (who’s quite attractive) to make Olivia.]]
** Aunt May is a comely older lady rather then the fragile wizened old bag who looks like she could keel over at any moment, as she’s often depicted as in the comics.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon''
** Played with in Superior Man, in [[ComicBook/SupermanRedSon the comic]] he’s an expy of ComicBook/{{Bizarro}} having the grey zombie-like appearance due being a flawed clone of Supes created by Lex Luthor. In the animated film, he looks like a normal healthy looking man, [[spoiler: before he suffers from a SuperpowerMeltdown and becomes a hideous troll-like beast]].
** Superman himself, in the comic as the decades go by he ages gaining white streaks and wrinkles. This also [[EvilMakesYouUgly reflects his turn]] from TheCape who’s merely misguided to full blown BewareTheSuperman dictator. In the animated film Superman keeps his handsome looks as TheAgeless.
* ''Animation/TheMysteryOfTheThirdPlanet'':
** Gromozeka still has several arms like in [[Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture the books]], but at least he has two legs instead of three, two eyes instead of several rows of many small ones, and doesn't have a trunk.
** [[spoiler:Glot's real form]] is pretty hideous, being a bluish-skinned, toothy, scrawny humanoid with no hair and no neck. However, it's not even close to his book counterpart's [[spoiler:terrifying, scorpion-like EldritchAbomination]] shape.
* While Shinnok still has the pale skin of his [[Franchise/MortalKombat game counterpart]], ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsBattleOfTheRealms'' depicts with as much more muscular and taller than in the games.
* Amanda Waller is once again hit with this trope in the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse, but this time with something of a caveat: [[WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay her debut film]] establishes that she's terminally ill. Granted, she still looks good despite this, but [[spoiler:''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' later reveals her illness did kill her.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'': In the books, Mr. Wolf’s drawn as scruffy and googly-eyed with a slightly loose suit, making a lot of goofy and slightly ugly faces. The movie makes him sharply-groomed, yellow-eyed, and more conventionally attractive with a trimmer suit.
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* The animated webcast adaptation of the unfinished ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Shada" did this with two different characters.
** Professor Chronotis was played in the TV version by Denis Carey as a decrepit old man. In the complete web-animation version, he was played by James Fox, and looked [[SilverFox much more well-preserved]] due to being an InkSuitActor.
** The graduate student Clare was, in the TV story, dressed in frumpy 1970s office-style clothes. In the animation, she is redesigned as a late-1970s punkette, in a [[SexySweaterGirl tight fluffy sweater]], mildly {{Goth}} make-up, and a studded leather dog collar.
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* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Both leads are attractive, but less blatantly than most adaptations of ''Literature/JaneEyre''.
** Jane is a downplayed example and done pretty well, considering the source material. She's supposed to look rather plain. Her actress is attractive, but her appearance is not enhanced by make-up or beautiful clothes. She looks like a normal girl who can be good-looking if she tries. When Jane shoots her vlog, she can be goofy, dorky, happy, scared, exhausted, tearful, visibly upset, dishevelled or with a prim and proper bun; wrapped up in an unflattering jumper, wearing her pyjamas or an elegant black dress or really sexy outfits like skinny jeans.
** Mr Rochester of the book is often described as downright ugly, though he's intelligent and has mysterious and brooding aura about him which makes him attractive. Mr Rochester in this version is quite handsome if slightly weird. He's not gorgeous as most Mr Rochesters in various adaptations, but other tropes like TroubledButCute successfully pump up his charms.
* The monster in ''WebVideo/FrankensteinMD'', while not ''attractive'' per se, is less inhuman/disturbing-looking than in the majority of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' adaptations; he has visible scars on his body, but isn't really the UncannyValley-invoking patchwork creation of the original book.
* Creator/FunnyOrDie: Outright mocked in [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/414fa4b226/the-wire-the-musical-with-michael-kenneth-williams this video]] where ''Series/TheWire'' is adapted into a musical. In the video Snoop, a female BloodKnight and ruthless enforcer who was a ButchLesbian in the show and who generally acted and dressed like OneOfTheBoys comes out dolled up and in a dress. She looks at herself and declares in disgust "Man, this some Cinderella bullshit man!"
* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'': Everybody on this show is insanely attractive. Most characters were good-looking, beautiful or handsome in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' as well, but Mary Bennet and Charlotte Lucas who were plain in the original book are both gorgeous in the web-series too.
* WebVideo/SolidJJ's: Discussed in the ''WebVideo/{{Stoogeposting}}'' video "The Three Stooges go Hollywood." The stooges talk about who'd play them in a movie, and both Larry and Curly wish their role would be played by Marlon Brando.
* This occurs in ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'' because the fan can't remember all of the details, and has to fill some in.
** Nena is not a {{gonk}}y short woman, but [[GenderFlip a very feminine boy]].[[note]]Bridget from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' to be precise.[[/note]]
** ZZ is not a scrawny guy with huge arms, but a guy with a HeroicBuild and a LanternJawOfJustice.
** J. Geil uses his default faceless appearance.
** Enya gets transformed into a tall, beautiful woman after Polnareff massages her.
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->In the book, of course, [Umbridge] is described as very ugly and toad-like. And people say, "You'd be great for that part!" [[SarcasmMode Thanks very much.]]

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->''"To be honest, [[Creator/DanielRadcliffe you]] and Creator/{{Rupert|Grint}} and Creator/{{Emma|Watson}} are all '''too''' good-looking!"''
-->-- '''Creator/JKRowling''', ''A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe''

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toad-like. And people say, "You'd be great for that part!" [[SarcasmMode Thanks very much.]]
-->-- '''Creator/JKRowling''', ''A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe''
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* In ''Theatre/MaratSade'': The Director of Charenton, Coulmier, is often presented in adaptations of the play as a well-dressed, good-looking noble. Meanwhile, the real Coulmier was rather short and described as a hunchback.
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* A fanfic of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' titled ''FanFic/ABrighterDark'' did this for Corrin. While the canon appearance of Corrin wasn't exactly ugly, Corrin in the fanfic is much more sexually appealing to match her [[ReallyGetsAround habits.]] [[AmazonianBeauty Her stronger and more muscular build probably helped as well.]]

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* A fanfic of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' titled ''FanFic/ABrighterDark'' did this for Corrin. While the canon appearance of Corrin wasn't exactly ugly, Corrin in the fanfic is much more sexually appealing to match her [[ReallyGetsAround habits.]] habits]]. [[AmazonianBeauty Her stronger and more muscular build probably helped as well.]]well]].



* ''The Literature/{{Discworld}} Assassins' Guild Diary'', the only canonical appearance of Miss Smith-Rhodes (Head of Raven House, Tutor in Domestic Science and Organic Poisons) has an illustration of the senior staff in which she is a round, stern, middle-aged woman, looking not unlike the popular perception of Mrs Beeton. Creator/AAPessimal's Johanna Smith-Rhodes, on the other hand, is a young, attractive, redheaded ActionGirl.

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* ''The Literature/{{Discworld}} Assassins' Guild Diary'', the only canonical appearance of Miss Smith-Rhodes (Head of Raven House, Tutor in Domestic Science and Organic Poisons) has an illustration of the senior staff in which she is a round, stern, middle-aged woman, looking not unlike the popular perception of Mrs Mrs. Beeton. Creator/AAPessimal's Johanna Smith-Rhodes, on the other hand, is a young, attractive, redheaded ActionGirl.



* [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally's]] ''[[Pinball/StarTrekBally Star Trek]]'' pinball does this to Kirk, Spock, [=McCoy=], and Uhura. Most prominent for the men, who are shown with [[HeroicBuild bulging biceps, broad shoulders, and sculpted pecs.]]

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* [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally's]] ''[[Pinball/StarTrekBally Star Trek]]'' pinball does this to Kirk, Spock, [=McCoy=], and Uhura. Most prominent for the men, who are shown with [[HeroicBuild bulging biceps, broad shoulders, and sculpted pecs.]]pecs]].

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