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** The girls who gain [[HeartBeatDown love powers]], like [[Anime/HappinessChargePrecure Megumi]], [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Nozomi]], [[Anime/SmilePrecure Miyuki]], and [[Anime/DokiDokiPrecure Mana]], are born with dark pink hair and eyes and have kind, caring personalities.

* Laverne from ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' is a CloudCuckoolander, and thus has an equally unhinged appearance, complete with different colored eyes and a MadEye.
* Fewer of the Gym Leaders in Franchise/{{Pokemon}} fall under this category than you might expect - most just have type-appropriate clothes and StevenUlyssesPerhero type names, HOWEVER there are also a lot of gym leaders that fit this trope to the letter:

** ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' follows this trope very well overall, but noticeably averts this trope sometimes with Pokémon with unintuitive types that just don't seem to match their design or lore well, or at least not as well as other types, much to fan confusion.

* The film version of Sauron (before he lost the ring) may deserve some blame, but the title character of the VideoGame/{{Overlord}} series looks exactly like what you'd expect. Glowing eyes, shrouded face, spiky plate armour, the works.\\
In the first game, this is of course a direct subversion: because you're given the glowing eyes and spiky plate armor, the trope is invoked to [[spoiler: prevent the realization that you ''aren't'' in fact the original evil Overlord. If you pay attention, there's even a hint at the beginning of the minions modifying your eyes]].
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'': Heat Man, as the game's fire themed boss, looks like a human-sized Zippo lighter.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'': Scarface is a peculiar example... maybe. Was he built ''with'' the scar? Did he change his name to Scarface after his face was scarred? Was he always named Scarface for no good reason until his face was actually scarred? [[WildMassGuessing Is the name completely unrelated, and he's just a really big Al Pacino fan?]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': Each of the four Guardians has an appearance strongly matching the element that he's associated with:
** Ignitus is [[FireIsRed uniformly red and ochre]], and his back spines are shaped like flames.
** Volteer is [[YellowLightningBlueLightning bright yellow with blue details]]. His stripes are jagged like lightning bolts, and in the third game so are his wing fingers.
** Cyril is [[BlueMeansCold whitish-blue with purple details]]. He's also covered in pointed, jagged blue plates strongly resembling shards of ice, and the spines on his chin resemble short icicles.
** Terrador is [[YellowEarthGreenEarth forest green]], with brown plates, horns, wing membranes and claws. His back and shoulder plates are rough, blocky and strongly resemble chunks of rock.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': Pikango is a travelling painter who keeps his long white hair tied up in a ponytail with the tip dyed black, making it look like a paintbrush.
* ''VideoGame/{{Medievil}}'': PlayedForLaughs. In the original Playstation game [[TheFaceless you never saw Sir Fortesque's face]] from when he was alive, but in the prologue of the PSP remake his face does get depicted in a stained-glass window, and his face looks almost exactly like his bare skull, with blond [[HidingBehindYourBangs bangs]] to cover [[EyeScream the eye he would lose in death]] and an overbite so ridiculous that he may as well not had a lower jaw at all. The [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1eoP%2B0AxWL.jpg tie-in comic]] that coincides with the release of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 remake also shows he had an overbite and was as skinny and gangly as his skeletal self.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** A good number of playable characters combine bright red hair -and often a fiery temper- with pyrokinetic magic. Examples include: The Prince of Cannock (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestII DQII]]''), the Female Mage (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII DQIII]]''), Ashlynn (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVI DQVI]]''), Maribel (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVII DQVII]]'') and Jessica (''[[VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII DQVIII]]'').
** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', the Winter Queen's blue hair and ivory armor match her ice and snow spells.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Plantasia}}'', beetles have green shells resembling military helmets, and are extremely tough bugs that need multiple sprays with the pest killer before they go down.
* The name of the [[TheAssimilator X Parasites]] from ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' may be derived from LetXBeTheUnknown, but the basic X have throbbing pseudopods that make them look like bulky, gelatinous versions of the ''letter'' X.

** Subverted with Whitebeard, who certainly has an epically suitable white ''mustache'', but no beard. However with Japanese translation it becomes more of White Facial Hair explaining why he is named Whitebeard without a white beard.
** A lot of Devil Fruit users leave the impression that they are designed around the powers they receive from eating the eponymous fruits (which is the point of the trope). The most jarring example has to be the user of the Moku Moku no Mi (Smoke-Smoke Fruit), who is a CigarChomper named, well, '''Smoker'''.

[[caption-width-right:350: Maybe he's a [[MakingASplash water]] elemental?]]

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* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'''s Toa followed this trope to the letter in the beginning. However, recent story has been trying to avert this; the last unique team of Toa was a group of mismatched rogues trying to get used to their new elemental roles.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Dog Hotel" Joshy, the guy running the desk at the Waggington Hotel for Dogs, is an excitable young man who not only acts a lot like a BigFriendlyDog, but has a haircut that makes him look like he has dog ears.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug:'' Gabriel Agreste uses a moth as the symbol for his fashion house, and has a lot of subtle moth motifs in the décor of his mansion. [[spoiler: Both the fashion line and the mansion are established facts in the Origins episode, and so were clearly built up well before he became Hawkmoth.]]

** Adrian has platinum blonde hair with a cyan streak, and she specializes in using ice conduits.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Pikango is a travelling painter who keeps his long white hair tied up in a ponytail with the tip dyed black, making it look like a paintbrush.

* ''VideoGame/{{Medievil}}'': PlayedForLaughs. In the original Playstation game [[TheFaceless you never saw Sir Fortesque's face]] from when he was alive, but in the prologue of the PSP remake his face does get depicted in a stained-glass window, and his face looks almost exactly like his bare skull, with blond PeekABangs to cover [[EyeScream the eye he would lose in death]] and an overbite so ridiculous that he may as well not had a lower jaw at all. The [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1eoP%2B0AxWL.jpg tie-in comic]] that coincides with the release of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 remake also shows he had an overbite and was as skinny and gangly as his skeletal self.

* From ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'': Guy Eldoon is an ex-surgeon who sells noodles, and his hat and hair look like a bowl of ramen. When he takes it off, [[spoiler:the hat is a wig, and he has the hairstyle you would expect a doctor to have. In fact, he strongly resembles the Medic from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'']].
** ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'': Quercus Alba is ancient and sturdy, like a white oak tree (which has the scientific name ''Quercus Alba''). He also has plants growing all around his office, one of which is even trimmed and styled to look like a bust of him!

** The girls who gain [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]], like Elena, Rin, Towa, and Akane, just happen to born with bright red or blonde hair that is spiky and (except for Towa) [[FieryRedhead fiery tempers]].
** The girls who gain water or ice powers, like Erika, Minami, Reika, Rikka, and Chiyu, naturally have long wavy blue hair and [[ShyBlueHairedGirl reserved, cool personalities]].
** The girls who gain [[StarPower star]] or [[{{Lunacy}} moon]] powers, like Yuri, Madoka, and Iona, naturally have dark purple hair and [[AloofDarkHairedGirl aloof, mysterious personalities]].
** The girls who gain [[HeartBeatDown love powers]], like Megumi, Nozomi, Miyuki, and Mana, are born with dark pink hair and eyes and have kind, caring personalities.
** The girls who gain [[LightEmUp light powers]] or [[ShockAndAwe electricity powers]], like Urara, Itsuki, Yayoi, Kirara, and Hinata, usually have brown/dirty blonde hair and eyes that turn bright blonde when transformed and bright, cheerful personalities.

* A few of the Contractors in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', who generally combine this with PersonalityPowers. For instance, Bertha was an overweight ex-opera singer (and it showed)- her power was to [[MakeMeWannaShout destroy things with her voice]], and Brita was a SexySecretary acting as a HoneyTrap whose [[PowerAtAPrice remuneration]] for her teleportation powers (which leave her ''naked'') was to [[IntimateHealing kiss people]]

** ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'': Quercus Alba is ancient and sturdy, like a white oak tree (which has the scientific name ''Quercus Alba''). He also has plants growing all around his office.

* Scarface from ''Videogame/MegaManXCommandMission'' is a peculiar example...maybe. Was he built ''with'' the scar? Did he change his name to Scarface after his face was scarred? Was he always named Scarface for no good reason until his face was actually scarred? [[WildMassGuessing Is the name completely unrelated, and he's just a really big Al Pacino fan?]]
** Heat Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'', as the game's fire themed boss, looks like a human sized Zippo lighter.

* Pikango from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is a travelling painter who keeps his long white hair tied up in a ponytail with the tip dyed black, making it look like a paintbrush.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/{{Medievil}}''. In the original Playstation game [[TheFaceless you never saw Sir Fortesque's face]] from when he was alive, but in the prologue of the PSP remake his face does get depicted in a stained-glass window, and his face looks almost exactly like his bare skull, with blond PeekABangs to cover [[EyeScream the eye he would lose in death]] and an overbite so ridiculous that he may as well not had a lower jaw at all. The [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1eoP%2B0AxWL.jpg tie-in comic]] that coincides with the release of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 remake also shows he had an overbite and was as skinny and gangly as his skeletal self.

*** Some people think that since Gen 9's pure Fire-type starter Fuecoco is based on a pepper or an apple, which are both plants, it should be part Grass-type. This has led to speculation that it will evolve into a Fire/Grass-type to remedy this, despite that this would be very unconventional for starters because there is already a Grass-type starter for this gen.

*** Clobbopus and Clobbopus are octopuses, and they are even in a Water-type breeding group, but they don't have a Water typing.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': Since it happens in a digital world, all avatars are this. For instance, Blue Angel sports a blue motif, uses an idol themed deck to signify her status as an idol and her Blue Maiden avatar change this to a water-themed deck to symbolize her friendship with Aqua. Soulburner's hairstyle, scarf, and color scheme represent fire which is appropriate as he uses a fire-themed deck. Playmaker wears a dark latex suit with Tron lines, and his deck is filled with dark Cyberse-type monsters.

* In Meredith Ann Pierce's ''The Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood'', Broc the gardener is fat, squatty, and graying, with big meaty hands and a preference for gray clothing. Magret the cook is rawboned, sharp-featured, [[GenkiGirl energetic]], [[MotorMouth loud]], tends to talk with her hands, and has white streaks in her hair. [[spoiler:If their [[MeaningfulName names]] weren't clue enough: [[BalefulPolymorph Broc spends most of the book as a badger; Magret, as a magpie]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents:'' Mr. Turner's boss Ed Leadley runs a pencil-making company called Pencil Nexus and happens to have the appearance of a used up pencil due to being short, wearing a yellow suit as well as pink shoes and his head being pointed with hair resembling graphite.

* Nezu from ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' is [[spoiler:TheMole]] and [[MeaningfulName his name means "rat"]]. He has squinty eyes and an overbite and his nose has a generally rat-like appearance.

* Pyro, a villain with fire powers in the ''ComicBook/XMen'' series, has yellow hair that sticks up in irregular spikes that look like flame.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}: Arnold Wesker of the composite Batman villain Ventriloquist and Scarface believes that his dummy is behind his actions (which may be true) and is utterly submissive to the commands of Scarface. His appearance is that of a thin, bald, older man with glasses that hide his face that emphasizes his physical and mental weakness to Scarface (or for creating the personality of Scarface).

* One story from the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' comics had a minor side character called Peter Porto who was a specialist on postage stamps. He not only had the oddly PropheticName which just seemed to destine him to become said expert, he also had a face that looked like a stamp. Of course, he could be so obsessed that he'd cut his beard and hair to look like that, but his face was a frikkin ''rectangle''.

* Justified in ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' with the Returned, people who [[CameBackStrong rise from death]] in new bodies as [[TheAgeless ageless]], prophetic beings and are worshiped as gods. Most get the flawless, seven-foot-tall HeroicBuild that one would expect of a deity, with some variation: [[LoveGoddess Blushweaver]] happily flaunts her MostCommonSuperpower, while the Allmother looks like everyone's favourite granny. [[spoiler:TheOlderImmortal Vasher]] reveals that they look like they think they ''should'' look thanks to a subconscious use of VoluntaryShapeshifting.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has a ''lot'', given the show's [[LoadsandLoadsofCharacters large cast]].

Supertrope to ElementalEyeColors and ElementalHairColors. Compare KarmicTransformation.

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*** Some people think that since Gen 9's Fuecoco is based on a pepper or an apple, which are both plants, it looks like it should be part Grass-type, yet it's a pure Fire-type. This has led to speculation that it will evolve into a Fire/Grass-type to remedy this, despite that this would be very unconventional for starters because there is already a Grass-type starter for this gen.

* In Meredith Ann Pierce's ''The Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood'', Broc the gardener is fat, squatty, and graying, with big meaty hands and a preference for gray clothing. Magret the cook is rawboned, sharp-featured, [[GenkiGirl energetic]], [[MotorMouth loud]], tends to talk with her hands, and has {{Skunk Stripe}}s in her hair. [[spoiler:If their [[MeaningfulName names]] weren't clue enough: [[BalefulPolymorph Broc spends most of the book as a badger; Magret, as a magpie]].]]