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* BemoaningTheNewBody: Troubled by a transformation.
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* ''Literature/BellePratersBoy'': Both Woodrow and Gypsy feel alienated for their looks. Woodrow is crosseyed, and (even before his mother disappeared) he was teased by local children for it. Gypsy is the opposite; she's a very pretty girl with gorgeous long hair, but she feels that people only see her hair, not who she truly is. They bond over the fact that they are both wonderful people who are more than their looks.
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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has Elliot and Carla start out aloof to each other, but in a FriendshipMoment start discussing their own neurosis over their bodies and go on to complement each other. Carla hates that her hair frizzes up in humidity, Elliot praises Carla's lips while Carla appreciates Elliots butt.
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* MaskingTheDeformity
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** Sharon Ventura, when she became She-Thing. By this point Ben had gotten over most of his angst over being rocklike (being the "idol o'millions" helps), so along comes Sharon, who's transformed from a standard comic book babe to a version of Ben's earliest look. She did not take it well.
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Right. Anyone on The Jerk Index or The Bully can potentially fit. Abusive Parents is index-bloated already. Plus, it doesn't fit the pattern of the other tropes in the folder


* AbusiveParents: Naturally, any instance of one's own ''parents'' dumping on their appearance -- ''especially attributes that they have no control over'' -- will negatively effect their body image.
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* WantedAGenderConformingChild: A parent rejects their child because the child's gender doesn't conform to the sex they were assigned at birth.

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* WantedAGenderConformingChild: A parent rejects their child because the child's gender expression doesn't conform to the sex they were assigned at birth.
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* ScarsAreUgly
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* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', the members of the Terrific Trio, an {{Expy}} of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, were all heavily mutated after a science experiment gone wrong. Although they're initially revered as heroes for their work in helping to stop crime, they are all secretly depressed about their predicament and the looks they get for being freaks.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', the members of the Terrific Trio, an {{Expy}} of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, Trio were all heavily mutated after a science experiment gone wrong. Although they're initially revered as heroes for their work in helping to stop crime, they are all secretly depressed about their predicament and the looks they get for being freaks.

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* In ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'', the Conductor, who normally hides his body in his thick uniform, is terrified of the prospect of anyone seeing him without it. He's actually an invisible being, something he tries to hide from others. [[spoiler:In the film ''Adieu Galaxy Express 999'', he reveals that this is due to his indecisiveness, being unable to choose between a human body or a machine one. By this point, he has come to accept his choice, finally revealing himself to Tetsuro.]]



* In ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'', the Conductor, who normally hides his body in his thick uniform, is terrified of the prospect of anyone seeing him without it. He's actually an invisible being, something he tries to hide from others. [[spoiler:In the film ''Adieu Galaxy Express 999'', he reveals that this is due to his indecisiveness, being unable to choose between a human body or a machine one. By this point, he has come to accept his choice, finally revealing himself to Tetsuro.]]
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* In ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'', the Conductor, who normally hides his body in his thick uniform, is terrified of the prospect of anyone seeing him without it. He's actually an invisible being, something he tries to hide from others. [[spoiler:In the film ''Adieu Galaxy Express 999'', he reveals that this is due to his indecisiveness, being unable to choose between a human body or a machine one. By this point, he has come to accept his choice, finally revealing himself to Tetsuro.]]
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* BabyDontGotBack: Bashfulness over a small butt.

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* BabyDontGotBack: Bashfulness Being blue over a one’s small butt.
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* BabyDontGotBack: Embarrassment over a small butt.

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* BabyDontGotBack: Embarrassment Bashfulness over a small butt.



* FreakinessShame: Fretting over fantastic attributes (that others actually find attractive).

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* FreakinessShame: Fretting over fantastic attributes features (that others actually find attractive).fetching).
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This issue is as common in the media we consume as it is in real life. This website hosts a [[BodyImageTropes wealth of tropes]] detailing how characters are unhappy with ''specific parts'' of their bodies, and even [[IAmNotPretty a trope]] covering characters who are ''generally'' unhappy with their looks. These characters have been struck with ''Appearance Angst''.

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This issue is as common in the media we consume as it is in real life. This website hosts a [[BodyImageTropes wealth of tropes]] detailing how characters are unhappy with ''specific parts'' of their bodies, and even [[IAmNotPretty a trope]] covering characters who are ''generally'' unhappy with their looks. These characters have been struck with ''Appearance Angst''.
[[TitleDrop Appearance Angst]].
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* {{Transgender}} and Gender-Nonconforming Characters: An extremely common, though not necessarily universal, issue affecting the transgender population is ''gender dysphoria'': intense psychological and emotional distress caused by one's physical anatomy and/or gender presentation being inconsistent with their internal gender identity.

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* {{Transgender}} Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Characters: An extremely common, though not necessarily universal, issue affecting the transgender population is ''gender dysphoria'': intense psychological and emotional distress caused by one's physical anatomy and/or gender presentation being inconsistent with their internal gender identity.
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* BabyDontGotBack: Embarrassment over a small butt.
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* ''VideoGame/HouseParty'': Derek is shy about having "french fry nipples", and so refuses to take off his shirt- in the route where this needs to happen, you have to have everyone at the party sign a petition in order to convince him.

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* ''VideoGame/HouseParty'': ''VideoGame/HouseParty2017'': Derek is shy about having "french fry nipples", and so refuses to take off his shirt- in the route where this needs to happen, you have to have everyone at the party sign a petition in order to convince him.
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* ''Fanfic/ShardsOfAMemory'': It is implied that some of Raphael's rage had its roots in the crack in his plastron, feeling like it made him defective not unlike a broken toy car Leo found thrown away.
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* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': Gabrielle cuts off her waist-length hair after becoming a vampire, has a breakdown when she sees that it [[StubbornHair grows back each evening]], and starts to cut and burn it nightly. She loves the freedom that the transformation granted her and is implied to see the long hair as a reminder of her suffocating old life as a nobleman's tubercular wife.
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* BigPrickBigProblems: Being bugged by a big bulge.

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