History Main / BeautyIsBad

* Played straight in ''Merlin''. Every single beautiful woman is evil, period. Only Gwen, who is more pretty than beautiful is allowed to be good, and she'll eventually cheat on Arthur anyway. Any other beautiful female is evil, period. Well, I guess there's Morgana. Oh wait......

* In the PhoenixWright series, nearly every female that other characters describe as "beautiful" turns out to be pure evil. Plenty of "good" female characters are considered attractive by the fandom - [[TheObiWan Mia Fey]] [[MostCommonSuperpower in particular]] - but it rarely comes up in the games themselves.

* There is a rant somewhere on DeviantArt about how, while Disney is finally branching out and making [[ThePrincessAndTheFrog a black leading lady]], it doesn't make up for the fact that she's still a ''pretty'' black leading lady. This piece eventually goes on to say that the studio owes it to their audience to make a fat princess, an ugly princess, a bald princess, a burn victim princess...
** Can we get a link to that?
** Well, pretty before and after she turns into a frog...
*** [[http://candy2021.deviantart.com/art/Tiana-the-First-56727838 Link provided]]
*** Who says [[KatawaShoujo burn victims]] [[http://katawa-shoujo.com/res/char/char_hanako.png can't be cute]]?
**** [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Or]] [[http://iroh.org/screencaps/ep61/ep61-1134.png handsome]]?
**** [[BlackLagoon Or]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/balalaika.jpg hot]].
** Is licensing [[TalesFromEarthsea a movie with a burn victim leading lady]] enough, or do they have to make it themselves?

* Any very attractive teenage girl or adult woman in a Lifetime MadeForTVMovie.

* Bret Easton Ellis' ''Glamorama'' is about models who are so self-centered and vain that they become sociopathic terrorists.

* Princess Laideronette (whose name is literally the French word for "ugly" rendered into a feminine name- one of the translations into English renamed her Hidessa) from the 18th-century fairy tale novella "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/aulnoy/1892/greenserpent.html The Green Serpent]]" is, in spite of having a good figure and lovely hair according to the original illustrations (they only show her from the back), so badly disfigured from birth by a curse flung at her by a fairy who was scorned by Laidronette's parents that she is kept locked away from the world and forced to wear a veil. When she wants to attend a ball in honor of her vain, beautiful, shallow sister Bellotte (who escaped the curse), the only concession her parents make is allowing her a peep-hole to watch the ball so she doesn't frighten the guests. The story is unclear if she ever becomes beautiful, but her virtue is rewarded by marriage to a handsome prince and becoming queen in her own right rather than just a consort, while Bellotte is left with nothing.
** The linked version makes it quite clear that she is cured of her ugliness.

** Morgana..(edited for being inaccurate). She just got tired supporting Knight Templar Uther, and for a very good reason...(removed for being wrong)... even though she's technically on the different side than Merlin and Arthur at the moment. (edit: Even though there is justification for this transformation Morgana is definitely evil. She was quite willing to mentally torture the king and destroy the whole kingdom, innocent lives included to advance her cause. She was dissappointed when Merlin, a guy who's saved her butt and confided in her and she in him plenty of times, escaped a nasty death in the forest. She was pleased with the news that he was going to be hanged though he was exonerated later of course. Also see the freezing cold glances she gives when uther isn't looking.)

** Morgana hardly became evil, either. She just got tired supporting KnightTemplar Uther, and for a very good reason. She still has plenty of sympathy and good motivations, even though she's technically on the different side than Merlin and Arthur at the moment.

* A classic DoctorWho example from very early in the show's run is the story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]" - the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped on a planet along with the beautiful female Drahvins and the hideous Rills.

* Back in TheDungAges, anyone who was "too anything" -- too rich, too beautiful/handsome, too smart -- was thought to have made a DealWithTheDevil.

* Any pretty teenage girl or adult woman in a Lifetime MadeForTVMovie.

* In the "Thank God It's Friday" episode of ''GrowingPains'', Mike, Boner and Eddie are invited to a party by a hip college dude. At the party, Mike's offered cocaine by a stunning blonde. [[DrugsAreBad Message: pretty girls do drugs and therefore are part of the wrong crowd.]]

** Lady Vivian wasn't evil per se, merely air-headed and rather spoiled.

* How many times have you heard the word [[{{Bishonen}} pretty]] [[EstrogenBrigadeBait boy]] uses as an insult? You can bet that any attractive man, especially a younger TeenIdol will get a lot of [[TheBarney hate]], and accusations of homosexuality (because anybody that's effeminate is obviously gay), from anybody outside their demographic, look at LeonardoDiCaprio (Titanic era), JohnnyDepp (Pre-TimBurton), Orlando Bloom (Still), the hate dries up when they [[strike:appear in action movies]] mature as actors.

* In the "Thank God It's Friday" episode of ''GrowingPains'', Mike, Boner and Eddie are invited to a party by a hip college dude. At the party, Mike's offered cocaine by a stunning blonde. Message: pretty girls do drugs and therefore are part of the wrong crowd.

* ''ShallowHal'' and its UnfortunateImplications that apparently, a woman who is objectively beautiful on the outside can never, ever be as beautiful on the inside.

* [[http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/onthejob/archive/2009/job0903.html The recommendation career coach Marty Nemko makes to employers is to hire ugly people.]] The reasons he give are that they're nicer, work harder and are more loyal.

* [[http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/onthejob/archive/2009/job0903.html The recommendation Career coach Marty Nemko makes to employers is to hire ugly people.]] The reasons he give are that they're nicer, work harder and are more loyal.

* Bullies of the Millennial Generation have been described as '''attractive''', athletic and academically accomplished by USAToday in this article, [[http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-04-bullying_N.htm here]].

* Princess Laideronette (whose name is literally the French word for "ugly" rendered into a feminine name- one of the translations into English renamed her Hidessa) from the 18th-century fairy tale novella "The Green Serpent" is, in spite of having a good figure and lovely hair according to the original illustrations (they only show her from the back), so badly disfigured from birth by a curse flung at her by a fairy who was scorned by Laidronette's parents that she is kept locked away from the world and forced to wear a veil. When she wants to attend a ball in honor of her vain, beautiful, shallow sister Bellotte (who escaped the curse), the only concession her parents make is allowing her a peep-hole to watch the ball so she doesn't frighten the guests. The story is unclear if she ever becomes beautiful, but her virtue is rewarded by marriage to a handsome prince and becoming queen in her own right rather than just a consort, while Bellotte is left with nothing.

**Ironically, as far as that goes, I have long thought that most women's faces are naturally beautiful, and to much makeup makes it ugly. Go figure.