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* Music/AnaisMitchell: The subject of "Tailor" is a woman who has tailored herself to fit her lover's expectations and has an identity crisis when he leaves her.
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* ''Manga/MyFirstGirlfriendIsAGal'': Yui and Nene play this trope straight in regards to Junichi, as both tried to adopt personalities they thought he would like in a woman. The former at first acted as a mature, dignified young woman, although she only saw him as her personal lapdog who'd follow her orders without question, while the latter thought he would like a "little sister"-type. When Junichi starts dating Yukana, Nene gets herself a Gal makeover, while Yui [[GreenEyedEpiphany realizes that she's in love with him]], and after befriending Yukana she's unable to bring herself to break them up, instead deciding [[TookALevelInKindness to try and become a better person]] to earn Junichi's affection.
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* ''Film/LoveHard'': In order to snag the outdoorsy Tag, Natalie pretends to be an adventurous, athletic young woman who likes the things he likes (even if she can't stand Creator/HenryDavidThoreau, who wrote his favorite book). It gets to the point that she goes to his family's steakhouse despite being vegetarian.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'': After Tuca starts dating Kara, Kara's passive-aggressive comments and Bertie saying that relationships require "compromise and change" convince Tuca to dress and act more professionally so Kara will stay with her. Bertie is quick to realize that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness something is very wrong]] when Tuca isn't being her usual outgoing GenkiGirl self, and Tuca herself starts to realize it as well when Bertie [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks her if Kara is also changing for her or if it's just one-sided]].
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** Miko Iino later develops this mindset after she [[spoiler:finally accepts that she's in love with Ishigami]]. While she is aware of her previously abrasive personality when it came to her crush, she decided to try learning more about his interests and come to see things from his point of view, so she can learn how to be closer to him.
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* In ''IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'', Ryo confesses to Yuzuki in the first chapter, but she rejects him, especially when he says he doesn't care if it's the age gap, or her 5 year old son, that's the reason she rejects him, showing that he was only thinking of himself. Over the course of the story, his CharacterDevelopment involves him becoming close to Yuzuki and her son, even acting as a ParentalSubstitute at times, and [[{{Nephewism}} learning to care for his own niece]]. Though he's obviously still into Yuzuki, he's no longer thinking only of himself or acting with ulterior motives.
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* In ''IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'', ''Manga/IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'', Ryo confesses to Yuzuki in the first chapter, but she rejects him, especially when he says he doesn't care if it's the age gap, or her 5 year old son, that's the reason she rejects him, showing that he was only thinking of himself. Over the course of the story, his CharacterDevelopment involves him becoming close to Yuzuki and her son, even acting as a ParentalSubstitute at times, and [[{{Nephewism}} learning to care for his own niece]]. Though he's obviously still into Yuzuki, he's no longer thinking only of himself or acting with ulterior motives.
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* In ''IWantYourMotherToBeWithMe'', Ryo confesses to Yuzuki in the first chapter, but she rejects him, especially when he says he doesn't care if it's the age gap, or her 5 year old son, that's the reason she rejects him, showing that he was only thinking of himself. Over the course of the story, his CharacterDevelopment involves him becoming close to Yuzuki and her son, even acting as a ParentalSubstitute at times, and [[{{Nephewism}} learning to care for his own niece]]. Though he's obviously still into Yuzuki, he's no longer thinking only of himself or acting with ulterior motives.
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* In ''LightNovel/YouLikeMeNotMyDaughter'', Takkun fell in love with [[StacysMom Ayako]] [[PrecociousCrush when he was ten]], and resolved to better himself to become a person worthy of her love, and who could help her raise her daughter Miu. He spent the next decade studying hard, becoming fit, and tutoring Miu, only confessing once he was in college.
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** Ishigami, after admitting that he's in love with his upperclassman Tsubame, decides to change his attitude and social outlook because he doesn't feel he's worthy enough as a man to approach her. His grades improve a lot, he becomes more active with social groups he wouldn't dream of approaching before, and he makes efforts to look like a cool, reliable guy, [[spoiler:but her issues run deeper than him not being cool, and she rejects him.]] [[ShipperWithAnAgenda Kaguya]] also did her best to nurture his feelings for this very reason, because she wanted to help improve his self-confidence and knew from personal experience that love can be a powerful motivator.
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** Ishigami, after admitting that he's in love with his upperclassman Tsubame, decides to change his attitude and social outlook because he doesn't feel he's worthy enough as a man to approach her. His grades improve a lot, he becomes more active with social groups he wouldn't dream of approaching before, and he makes efforts to look like a cool, reliable guy, [[spoiler:but her issues run deeper than him not being cool, and she rejects him.]] him]]. [[ShipperWithAnAgenda Kaguya]] also did her best to nurture his feelings for this very reason, because she wanted to help improve his self-confidence and knew from personal experience that love can be a powerful motivator.
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** Ishigami, after admitting that he's in love with his upperclassman Tsubame, decides to change his attitude and social outlook because he doesn't feel he's worthy enough as a man to approach her. His grades improve a lot, he becomes more active with social groups he wouldn't dream of approaching before, and he makes efforts to look like a cool, reliable guy, [[spoiler:but her issues run deeper than him not being cool, and she rejects him.]]
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** Ishigami, after admitting that he's in love with his upperclassman Tsubame, decides to change his attitude and social outlook because he doesn't feel he's worthy enough as a man to approach her. His grades improve a lot, he becomes more active with social groups he wouldn't dream of approaching before, and he makes efforts to look like a cool, reliable guy, [[spoiler:but her issues run deeper than him not being cool, and she rejects him.]]]] [[ShipperWithAnAgenda Kaguya]] also did her best to nurture his feelings for this very reason, because she wanted to help improve his self-confidence and knew from personal experience that love can be a powerful motivator.
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* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' reinvented himself as a confident academic in order to attract Kaguya after his stint as a DoggedNiceGuy proved unsuccessful. While this did help him catch her attention ([[ForgottenFirstMeeting to the point that she doesn't even remember that she met him before the change]]), [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she ultimately fell in love with the kind person underneath his mask]]. Kaguya also displayed shades of this, though her change was a case of LoveRedeems. This also leads to a bit of drama during the Culture Festival arc, since both of them feared that the other only loved the persona that they had created.
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* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' features this character arc a few times:
** Shirogane reinvented himself as a confident academic in order to attract Kaguya after his stint as a DoggedNiceGuy proved unsuccessful. While this did help him catch her attention ([[ForgottenFirstMeeting to the point that she doesn't even remember that she met him before the change]]), [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she ultimately fell in love with the kind person underneath his mask]]. Kaguya also displayed shades of this, though her change was a case of LoveRedeems. This also leads to a bit of drama during the Culture Festival arc, since both of them feared that the other only loved the persona that they hadcreated.created.
** Ishigami, after admitting that he's in love with his upperclassman Tsubame, decides to change his attitude and social outlook because he doesn't feel he's worthy enough as a man to approach her. His grades improve a lot, he becomes more active with social groups he wouldn't dream of approaching before, and he makes efforts to look like a cool, reliable guy, [[spoiler:but her issues run deeper than him not being cool, and she rejects him.]]
** Shirogane reinvented himself as a confident academic in order to attract Kaguya after his stint as a DoggedNiceGuy proved unsuccessful. While this did help him catch her attention ([[ForgottenFirstMeeting to the point that she doesn't even remember that she met him before the change]]), [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she ultimately fell in love with the kind person underneath his mask]]. Kaguya also displayed shades of this, though her change was a case of LoveRedeems. This also leads to a bit of drama during the Culture Festival arc, since both of them feared that the other only loved the persona that they had
** Ishigami, after admitting that he's in love with his upperclassman Tsubame, decides to change his attitude and social outlook because he doesn't feel he's worthy enough as a man to approach her. His grades improve a lot, he becomes more active with social groups he wouldn't dream of approaching before, and he makes efforts to look like a cool, reliable guy, [[spoiler:but her issues run deeper than him not being cool, and she rejects him.]]
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* Music/HoneyWorks' "[[Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee Confession Rival Declaration]]]" has its narrator, Koyuki, decide to change his whole attitude in the hopes of attracting the attention of a girl he likes. While he doesn't stop being shy and tending to flowers, he sheds his feminine looks and starts participating in sports to build up a reputation as a cool, handsome guy. Everyone is impressed, he stops getting bullied, and girls genuinely flock to him...[[EverythingButTheGirl but his crush likes someone else and gets with him instead.]]
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* Music/HoneyWorks' "[[Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee Confession Rival Declaration]]]" Declaration]]" has its narrator, Koyuki, decide to change his whole attitude in the hopes of attracting the attention of a girl he likes. While he doesn't stop being shy and tending to flowers, he sheds his feminine looks and starts participating in sports to build up a reputation as a cool, handsome guy. Everyone is impressed, he stops getting bullied, and girls genuinely flock to him...[[EverythingButTheGirl but his crush likes someone else and gets with him instead.]]
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* Music/HoneyWorks' "[[Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee Confession Rival Declaration]]]" has its narrator, Koyuki, decide to change his whole attitude in the hopes of attracting the attention of a girl he likes. While he doesn't stop being shy and tending to flowers, he sheds his feminine looks and starts participating in sports to build up a reputation as a cool, handsome guy. Everyone is impressed, he stops getting bullied, and girls genuinely flock to him...[[EverythingButTheGirl but his crush likes someone else and gets with him instead.]]
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** In "Back in Black", Lucy dyes her hair blonde and wears a pink outfit instead of her usual black and white one, and starts talking like a ValleyGirl and avoiding mentioning her morbid interests, to impress her crush Rocky. It turns out Rocky has similar interests to her.
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** In "Back in Black", Lucy dyes her hair is suddenly blonde and she wears a pink outfit instead of her usual black and white one, and starts talking like a ValleyGirl and avoiding mentioning her morbid interests, to impress her crush Rocky. It turns out Rocky has similar interests to her.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': After passing good part of the episodes with the DoesNotLikeMen attitude, Stocking finally dropped all of that when she felt in love with an ugly devil that was also ThePigPen and had little to no interest on her. Stocking not just abandoned her cold attitude, she went like a high schooler in love, and on a date, even she went entirely in pink instead of black (but still in gothic lolita fashion), trying to impress him.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': After passing a good part of the episodes with the DoesNotLikeMen attitude, Stocking finally dropped all of that when she felt fell in love with an ugly devil that was also ThePigPen and had little to no interest on in her. Stocking not just abandoned her cold attitude, she went like a high schooler in love, and on a date, even she went entirely in pink instead of black (but still in gothic lolita fashion), trying to impress him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argue about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends the fight with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about that." Later, Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and steal the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he believes it would be better for her if she had a human husband instead of an ogre, eventually becoming one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argue about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends the fight with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about that." Later, Shrek, Donkey Donkey, and Puss in Boots sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and steal the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he believes it would be better for her if she had a human husband instead of an ogre, eventually becoming one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': When she begins to fall for Fuutarou, [[MiddleChildSyndrome Miku]] asks him what type of girls he likes. She's left depressed when he mentions "[[GenkiGirl Always cheerful]]" and "[[SupremeChef Good at cooking]]", since she's [[ShrinkingViolet the complete opposite]] [[LethalChef of both accounts]]. She spends the rest of the series trying to be more assertive and learning to cook in order to appeal to him. However, this also benefits her in the long run since by meeting and falling in love with Fuutarou, it enables Miku to become a best version of herself.
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* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': When she begins to fall for Fuutarou, [[MiddleChildSyndrome Miku]] asks him what type of girls he likes. She's left depressed when he mentions "[[GenkiGirl Always cheerful]]" and "[[SupremeChef Good at cooking]]", since she's [[ShrinkingViolet the complete opposite]] [[LethalChef of both accounts]]. She spends the rest of the series trying to be more assertive and learning to cook in order to appeal to him. However, this also benefits her in the long run since by meeting and falling in love with Fuutarou, it enables Miku to become Miku's CharacterDevelopment that sticks like a best version of herself.glue [[spoiler: even after Fuutarou ends up choosing Yotsuba.]]
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* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': When she begins to fall for Fuutarou, [[MiddleChildSyndrome Miku]] asks him what type of girls he likes. She's left depressed when he mentions "[[GenkiGirl Always cheerful]]" and "[[SupremeChef Good at cooking]]", since she's [[ShrinkingViolet the complete opposite]] [[LethalChef of both accounts]]. She spends the rest of the series trying to be more assertive and learning to cook in order to appeal to him.
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* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': When she begins to fall for Fuutarou, [[MiddleChildSyndrome Miku]] asks him what type of girls he likes. She's left depressed when he mentions "[[GenkiGirl Always cheerful]]" and "[[SupremeChef Good at cooking]]", since she's [[ShrinkingViolet the complete opposite]] [[LethalChef of both accounts]]. She spends the rest of the series trying to be more assertive and learning to cook in order to appeal to him. However, this also benefits her in the long run since by meeting and falling in love with Fuutarou, it enables Miku to become a best version of herself.
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* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'': When she begins to fall for Fuutarou, [[MiddleChildSyndrome Miku]] asks him what type of girls he likes. She's left depressed when he mentions "[[GenkiGirl Always cheerful]]" and "[[SupremeChef Good at cooking]]", since she's [[ShrinkingViolet the complete opposite]] [[LethalChef of both accounts]]. She spends the rest of the series trying to be more assertive and learning to cook in order to appeal to him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argue about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about that." Later, Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and steal the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he believes it would be better for her if she had a human husband instead of an ogre, eventually becoming one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argue about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends the fight with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about that." Later, Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and steal the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he believes it would be better for her if she had a human husband instead of an ogre, eventually becoming one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and steals the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he believes it would be better for her if she had a human husband instead of an ogre, eventually becoming one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued argue about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it.that." Later, Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and steals steal the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he believes it would be better for her if she had a human husband instead of an ogre, eventually becoming one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked into Fairy Godmother's factory and got the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he would be better to her if he got a human as a husband than an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked sneak into Fairy Godmother's factory and got steals the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he believes it would be better to for her if he got she had a human as a husband than instead of an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} type, nonetheless).
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': After passing good part of the episodes with the DoesNotLikeMen attitude, Stocking finally dropped all of that when she felt in love with an ugly devil that was also ThePigPen and had little to no interest on her. Stocking not just abandoned her cold attitude, she went like a highschooler in love, and in a date, even she went enterely of pink instead of black (but still in gothic lolita fashion), trying to impress him.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': After passing good part of the episodes with the DoesNotLikeMen attitude, Stocking finally dropped all of that when she felt in love with an ugly devil that was also ThePigPen and had little to no interest on her. Stocking not just abandoned her cold attitude, she went like a highschooler high schooler in love, and in on a date, even she went enterely of entirely in pink instead of black (but still in gothic lolita fashion), trying to impress him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving to at Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked into Fairy Godmother's factory and got the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he would be better to her if he got a human as a husband than an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} type, noneless).nonetheless).
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* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In one episode, Cat meets a boy while she was wearing a blonde wig for a short film she was shooting. She lets him think she's a natural blonde as she worries that's the only reason he asked her out. However, eventually her wig is knocked off and the boy sees her actual hair. He admits he thinks she's beautiful, but doesn't like that she lied to him and breaks it off with her.
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* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In one episode, Cat meets a boy while she was wearing a blonde wig for a short film she was shooting. She lets him think she's a natural blonde as she worries that's the only reason he asked her out. However, eventually her wig is knocked off and the boy sees her actual hair. He admits he thinks she's beautiful, beautiful but doesn't like that she lied to him and breaks it off with her.
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* ''Series/{{Suburgatory}}'': In one episode, Lisa develops a crush on a new boy at school. However, Tessa believes he's gay after she keeps catching him staring at the jocks. Lisa isn't phased, and aggressively pursues him. She even starts dressing up as a boy in order to get his attention. In the end, [[spoiler: it's revealed he was actually an undercover narcotics officer who was posing as a teenager to catch a jock who was using steroids. He also had a wife.]]
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* ''Series/{{Suburgatory}}'': In one episode, Lisa develops a crush on a new boy at school. However, Tessa believes he's gay after she keeps catching him staring at the jocks. Lisa isn't phased, phased and aggressively pursues him. She even starts dressing up as a boy in order to get his attention. In the end, [[spoiler: it's revealed he was actually an undercover narcotics officer who was posing as a teenager to catch a jock who was using steroids. He also had a wife.]]
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* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'': The first sign that Benedick had fallen in love with Beatrice is when he shaved his beard. Earlier in the play Beatrice had mentioned how she could not stand the thought of kissing a man with a beard.
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** One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is Matchmaking, which involves finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
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** One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is Matchmaking, which involves finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, her and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
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* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is Matchmaking, which involves finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
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* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'':
** One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is Matchmaking, which involves finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with hiswisdom.wisdom.
** Gema Taku's task for the player is to ask the bully girls (Musume and her GirlPosse) he has a crush on what they think about him. Yandere-chan will tell him what physical traits they don't like at him, so the next day, he will change his appearance (change his messy hairstyle with a neat ponytail, shave clean, improve his posture, remove his bandana, and replace his opaque glasses with transparent ones) and the bullies will all fall in love with him.
** One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is Matchmaking, which involves finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his
** Gema Taku's task for the player is to ask the bully girls (Musume and her GirlPosse) he has a crush on what they think about him. Yandere-chan will tell him what physical traits they don't like at him, so the next day, he will change his appearance (change his messy hairstyle with a neat ponytail, shave clean, improve his posture, remove his bandana, and replace his opaque glasses with transparent ones) and the bullies will all fall in love with him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving to Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked into Fairy Godmother's factory and got the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he would be better to her if he got a human as husband than an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} tyle, noneless).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving to Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked into Fairy Godmother's factory and got the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he would be better to her if he got a human as husband than an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} tyle, type, noneless).
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* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
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* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is Matchmaking, which involves finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
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Related to PeerPressureMakesYouEvil as well. May involve SheCleansUpNicely and/or UnnecessaryMakeover.
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Compare ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange and ShapeshiftingSeducer when they ''literally'' change themselves for love (or lust and seduction, at any rate).
Related to PositiveFriendInfluence and PeerPressureMakesYouEvil as well. May involve SheCleansUpNicely and/or UnnecessaryMakeover.
Related to PositiveFriendInfluence and PeerPressureMakesYouEvil as well. May involve SheCleansUpNicely and/or UnnecessaryMakeover.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' episode "The Roxanne Problem" does this with an ImpliedLoveInterest. Cat meets another cat, Roxanne, and it's implied that he has a crush on her. In order to impress her, he pretends that he's GoodWithNumbers and has Peg lip-synch for him. when he reveals that he doesn't know squat about mathematics, she says that it's fine as he can always learn.
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A character changes an integral part of their appearance or personality in the hopes of getting their crush to like them. This often ends in a BeYourself Aesop where the character learns that they don't need to change who they are for someone else and it turns out that their love interest liked them the way they are. In other works, the character does end up catching the attention of their love interest only for them to quickly realize how shallow their love interest is.
Sometimes, the change in image is portrayed as positive and sticks as CharacterDevelopment.
SuperTrope to BeAWhoreToGetYourMan, where a character changes their image to be more sexual to attract their love interest.
See also ConvertingForLove, where a character changes their religious beliefs for love and LoveRedeems when a villain switches sides after falling in love with a good person.
Related to PeerPressureMakesYouEvil as well. May involve SheCleansUpNicely and/or UnnecessaryMakeover.
Contrast ICanChangeMyBeloved when a character ''believes'' they can change their LoveInterest.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', Bell Cranel starts out as a HaremSeeker in search of the RescueRomance his grandpa always told him about. After he's rescued from certain death by the devastatingly beautiful and incredibly powerful adventurer Ais Wallenstein, Bell is instantly smitten with her and vows to become strong enough to stand beside her one day. His desire to catch up to her is so strong that he gets a unique MetaPowerUp that [[ExperienceBooster rapidly increases the rate at which his stats grow]] and [[BrokeTheRatingScale lets him break the usual stat caps]] so long as his feelings for her persist. Because of this, he completely drops his HaremSeeker ways and dreams of becoming a hero to earn her affection.
* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' reinvented himself as a confident academic in order to attract Kaguya after his stint as a DoggedNiceGuy proved unsuccessful. While this did help him catch her attention ([[ForgottenFirstMeeting to the point that she doesn't even remember that she met him before the change]]), [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she ultimately fell in love with the kind person underneath his mask]]. Kaguya also displayed shades of this, though her change was a case of LoveRedeems. This also leads to a bit of drama during the Culture Festival arc, since both of them feared that the other only loved the persona that they had created.
* Downplayed in ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily''. Taiyo and Mutsumi are married in the first chapter in order to get Kyoichiro off their backs. But Taiyo soon realizes the magnitude of the danger Mutsumi is constantly in and decides to become a superspy strong enough to protect her and be worthy of being her husband against the expectations of others.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Prior to getting her ImportantHaircut, Sakura grew out her hair because she heard a rumor that Sasuke liked girls with long hair.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': After passing good part of the episodes with the DoesNotLikeMen attitude, Stocking finally dropped all of that when she felt in love with an ugly devil that was also ThePigPen and had little to no interest on her. Stocking not just abandoned her cold attitude, she went like a highschooler in love, and in a date, even she went enterely of pink instead of black (but still in gothic lolita fashion), trying to impress him.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Akari Unryu, in her debut story, does everything she can to force herself to hate pigs (refusing to even ''say'' the word "pig") after a standard-issue comical misunderstanding causes her to think Ryoga is ashamed of his pig curse. It doesn't really work, but the effort alone probably makes her the single most considerate human being in the DysfunctionJunction that is Nerima.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Betty grows her hair out her short hair into her iconic ponytail in order to get Archie's attention after she saw him with a girl with a ponytail.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving to Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked into Fairy Godmother's factory and got the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he would be better to her if he got a human as husband than an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} tyle, noneless).
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* ''Film/AmericanBeauty'': Lester falls for his daughter's schoolmate and, after overhearing her say that she would find him attractive if he just were more buff, starts working out regularly until he's in top shape to impress her.
* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': In addition to Sandy [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan becoming "bad" to impress Danny]], Danny himself tried to win her over by getting involved in sports after she expressed interest in a jock, despite that he and the other T-Birds were making fun of the jocks earlier in the film.
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* ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'': Albert, the father of Carmen, who divorced her mother Christina and then remarried with Lydia, was a lot more religiously praticant than with his former wife, being observed praying by Carmen.
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* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', Sikozu's black-leather-and-tattoos makeover in the WrapItUp "The Peacekeeper Wars" is blatantly designed to appeal to her boyfriend Scorpius's fetishes.
* In an episode of ''Series/HappyDays'', Richie tries acting like a greaser to impress his crush. When it doesn't work, he says to Ralph, "It worked for the Fonz!". Ralph replies, "''Everything'' works for [[BornLucky the Fonz]]!".
* ''Series/HannahMontana'': In one episode, Miley decides to try and turn her tomboyish best-friend Lily into a GirlyGirl to help Lily win over her crush (and because Lily's antics were annoying her), especially after seeing the AlphaBitch duo flirting with him. However, this only makes the boy less interested in her, to the point where he stands her up at the dance; it turns out, he liked her ''because'' she was a cool skater-chick.
* ''Series/ICarly'': In "iMake Sam Girlier", Sam requests Carly and Freddie to help her become more of a GirlyGirl to impress a boy she likes. It works until the new school bully starts harassing Carly and Freddie and she reverts back to her old self to save them. It turns out Sam's crush actually likes her for being who she already is instead of who she tried to be.
* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/MyFamily''; in one episode, the Harpers host an attractive female exchange student from France, and Nick tries to woo her by acting extremely French (wearing a beret and black turtleneck); when that fails, he then acts extremely British (wearing a red smoking jacket and ascot and smoking a pipe).
* An episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' has Lisa pretend she was an intellectual to impress a boy she liked because he scoffed at her real personality.
* In the TV series of ''Literature/TrainMan2004'', Yamada gets a makeover before going on a first date with Saori, as he's an Otaku but doesn't want her to know that he's one (Saori wasn't wearing her contact lenses when he defended her, so she didn't know what he looked like). Later on, it turns out that she's fine with his Otaku nature, and she has a good time in Akihabara when Yamada takes her there.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In one episode, Cat meets a boy while she was wearing a blonde wig for a short film she was shooting. She lets him think she's a natural blonde as she worries that's the only reason he asked her out. However, eventually her wig is knocked off and the boy sees her actual hair. He admits he thinks she's beautiful, but doesn't like that she lied to him and breaks it off with her.
* One two-parter from ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' sees Budnick fall in love with Dina and force himself to become the classy, nice guy that he assumes she wants. This ends up backfiring, as well she is initially flattered by his attempts to change, she finds the "respectable" and "composed" Budnick boring, and tries to get him to dump her and go back to normal.
* ''Series/{{Suburgatory}}'': In one episode, Lisa develops a crush on a new boy at school. However, Tessa believes he's gay after she keeps catching him staring at the jocks. Lisa isn't phased, and aggressively pursues him. She even starts dressing up as a boy in order to get his attention. In the end, [[spoiler: it's revealed he was actually an undercover narcotics officer who was posing as a teenager to catch a jock who was using steroids. He also had a wife.]]
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* The Music/BigTimeRush song "Any Kind Of Guy" is about the guys announcing their intent to become any kind of guy the girl might want:
--> Changing my point of view
--> Everyday something new
--> Anything to get next to you (gonna get to you)
* Music/BowlingForSoup: "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" is about the singer crushing on a "chick a little cooler" than him. Because she's into things like wrestling, mustaches, and rap metal, he admits in one verse that now ''he's'' watching wrestling, listening to rap metal, and struggling to grow a mustache.
* Deliberately averted in the song "Just the Way You Are" by Music/BillyJoel
-->Don't go changing to try and please me.
-->You never let me down before.
* The 60's standard "Wishin' and Hopin'", first recorded by Dusty Springfield, exhorts the listener to stop moping around and start changing yourself to get your man:
-->"Do the things he likes to do/Wear your hair just for him"
* In "Pristine" by Snail Mail, told from the perspective of an insecure lover, asks their crush who they change for (a.k.a. who they really like), and then offers to make herself into her lover's type of girl:
--> Out out of everyone, who's your type of girl?"
-->[...]"I can be anyone."
* In "The Beers" by Music/TheFrontBottoms, the narrator is taking steroids because his girlfriend [[WomenPreferStrongMen likes a man with muscles]].
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* In ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'', Wednesday Addams changes from a sombre, unorthodox young woman who wears black to a cheerful, [[GirlNextDoor generic]] young woman who wears yellow for her love interest, a guy who is basically just the definition of generic.
* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'': The first sign that Benedick had fallen in love with Beatrice is when he shaved his beard. Earlier in the play Beatrice had mentioned how she could not stand the thought of kissing a man with a beard.
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* ''VideoGame/FableI'': {{Parodied|Trope}} in a {{Sidequest}} where a man promises to introduce the Hero to his daughter if he gets "her favourite" haircut -- a GagHaircut that takes three trips to the barber. He then admits that it was a joke to [[BullyingADragon make the Hero look silly]] and that he doesn't have a daughter.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
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* ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'': In "I Lost All My Hair Because My Boyfriend Made Me Become Blonde", Kimberly dyes her brunette hair blonde because she heard that her crush liked blondes.
* ''WebVideo/{{Dad}}'': In Daughter's attempts to attract her crush, the BigManOnCampus Griffin, she decided to [[ImportantHaircut cut her hair]], rationalizing that she liked short hair too, in a way that made it pretty apparent this isn't something she'd have done naturally.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:'' In the ''Princess Diaries 2'' review, [[StalkerWithACrush Hyper Fangirl]] kidnaps the Critic and bribes him to stick around by showing her all the nerdy, masculine media she supposedly likes. However, near the end of the review when he's [[AlmostKiss supposedly given in to her,]] he learns she has the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies. When she has a breakdown asking him to tell her which movies to like, he realizes she was just pretending to like most of these things to manipulate him to fall in love with her.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6Teen]]'': In "Lights Out", Starr, Jude's love interest, decides to go goth in pursuit of other interests. Jude tries to follow suit as well but both know that's not who he is and mutually break up over it. Which wouldn't be the first time [[RunningGag and won't be the last]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** In "Back in Black", Lucy dyes her hair blonde and wears a pink outfit instead of her usual black and white one, and starts talking like a ValleyGirl and avoiding mentioning her morbid interests, to impress her crush Rocky. It turns out Rocky has similar interests to her.
** In "White Hare", Lincoln dresses as a greaser to impress the new girl Stella. In "Be Stella My Heart", he slicks back his hair, Clyde [[TheGlassesGottaGo takes off his glasses]], and Rusty puts on a suit, again to impress Stella. Eventually, Stella becomes their platonic friend.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Zig-zagged in the episode "Simple Ways", Rarity isn't so much trying to change herself and imitating (what she thinks of) Applejack out of love to get Trenderhoof's attention so much as trying to impress him and getting jealous when he keeps focusing on Applejack whom he becomes smitten with. Played straight with Trenderhoof however near the end when he nearly decides to leave his job and city life to be a "country bumpkin" (even dressing in overalls) just out of his crush for AJ though she manages to talk him out of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'': In "Roll Around the Clock", Bright Eyes and Lancer are encouraged by their friends to change their looks and personalities to attract each other. Unfortunately, they liked each other the way they already were, and both end up being repulsed by the other's "new".
* The ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' episode "The Roxanne Problem" does this with an ImpliedLoveInterest. Cat meets another cat, Roxanne, and it's implied that he has a crush on her. In order to impress her, he pretends that he's GoodWithNumbers and has Peg lip-synch for him. when he reveals that he doesn't know squat about mathematics, she says that it's fine as he can always learn.
Sometimes, the change in image is portrayed as positive and sticks as CharacterDevelopment.
SuperTrope to BeAWhoreToGetYourMan, where a character changes their image to be more sexual to attract their love interest.
See also ConvertingForLove, where a character changes their religious beliefs for love and LoveRedeems when a villain switches sides after falling in love with a good person.
Related to PeerPressureMakesYouEvil as well. May involve SheCleansUpNicely and/or UnnecessaryMakeover.
Contrast ICanChangeMyBeloved when a character ''believes'' they can change their LoveInterest.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', Bell Cranel starts out as a HaremSeeker in search of the RescueRomance his grandpa always told him about. After he's rescued from certain death by the devastatingly beautiful and incredibly powerful adventurer Ais Wallenstein, Bell is instantly smitten with her and vows to become strong enough to stand beside her one day. His desire to catch up to her is so strong that he gets a unique MetaPowerUp that [[ExperienceBooster rapidly increases the rate at which his stats grow]] and [[BrokeTheRatingScale lets him break the usual stat caps]] so long as his feelings for her persist. Because of this, he completely drops his HaremSeeker ways and dreams of becoming a hero to earn her affection.
* Shirogane from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' reinvented himself as a confident academic in order to attract Kaguya after his stint as a DoggedNiceGuy proved unsuccessful. While this did help him catch her attention ([[ForgottenFirstMeeting to the point that she doesn't even remember that she met him before the change]]), [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she ultimately fell in love with the kind person underneath his mask]]. Kaguya also displayed shades of this, though her change was a case of LoveRedeems. This also leads to a bit of drama during the Culture Festival arc, since both of them feared that the other only loved the persona that they had created.
* Downplayed in ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily''. Taiyo and Mutsumi are married in the first chapter in order to get Kyoichiro off their backs. But Taiyo soon realizes the magnitude of the danger Mutsumi is constantly in and decides to become a superspy strong enough to protect her and be worthy of being her husband against the expectations of others.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Prior to getting her ImportantHaircut, Sakura grew out her hair because she heard a rumor that Sasuke liked girls with long hair.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': After passing good part of the episodes with the DoesNotLikeMen attitude, Stocking finally dropped all of that when she felt in love with an ugly devil that was also ThePigPen and had little to no interest on her. Stocking not just abandoned her cold attitude, she went like a highschooler in love, and in a date, even she went enterely of pink instead of black (but still in gothic lolita fashion), trying to impress him.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Akari Unryu, in her debut story, does everything she can to force herself to hate pigs (refusing to even ''say'' the word "pig") after a standard-issue comical misunderstanding causes her to think Ryoga is ashamed of his pig curse. It doesn't really work, but the effort alone probably makes her the single most considerate human being in the DysfunctionJunction that is Nerima.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Betty grows her hair out her short hair into her iconic ponytail in order to get Archie's attention after she saw him with a girl with a ponytail.
[[AC:Films -- Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after arriving to Far Far Away's kingdom where Fiona's parents live, she and Shrek argued about being more flexible with her parents, where Fiona ends with "I've made changes for you, Shrek. Think about it." Later, Shrek with Donkey and Puss in Boots sneaked into Fairy Godmother's factory and got the "HappilyEverAfter" potion since he thought he would be better to her if he got a human as husband than an ogre, eventually becoming in one (of a {{Hunk}} tyle, noneless).
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* ''Film/AmericanBeauty'': Lester falls for his daughter's schoolmate and, after overhearing her say that she would find him attractive if he just were more buff, starts working out regularly until he's in top shape to impress her.
* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': In addition to Sandy [[BeAWhoreToGetYourMan becoming "bad" to impress Danny]], Danny himself tried to win her over by getting involved in sports after she expressed interest in a jock, despite that he and the other T-Birds were making fun of the jocks earlier in the film.
[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'': Albert, the father of Carmen, who divorced her mother Christina and then remarried with Lydia, was a lot more religiously praticant than with his former wife, being observed praying by Carmen.
[[AC:Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', Sikozu's black-leather-and-tattoos makeover in the WrapItUp "The Peacekeeper Wars" is blatantly designed to appeal to her boyfriend Scorpius's fetishes.
* In an episode of ''Series/HappyDays'', Richie tries acting like a greaser to impress his crush. When it doesn't work, he says to Ralph, "It worked for the Fonz!". Ralph replies, "''Everything'' works for [[BornLucky the Fonz]]!".
* ''Series/HannahMontana'': In one episode, Miley decides to try and turn her tomboyish best-friend Lily into a GirlyGirl to help Lily win over her crush (and because Lily's antics were annoying her), especially after seeing the AlphaBitch duo flirting with him. However, this only makes the boy less interested in her, to the point where he stands her up at the dance; it turns out, he liked her ''because'' she was a cool skater-chick.
* ''Series/ICarly'': In "iMake Sam Girlier", Sam requests Carly and Freddie to help her become more of a GirlyGirl to impress a boy she likes. It works until the new school bully starts harassing Carly and Freddie and she reverts back to her old self to save them. It turns out Sam's crush actually likes her for being who she already is instead of who she tried to be.
* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''Series/MyFamily''; in one episode, the Harpers host an attractive female exchange student from France, and Nick tries to woo her by acting extremely French (wearing a beret and black turtleneck); when that fails, he then acts extremely British (wearing a red smoking jacket and ascot and smoking a pipe).
* An episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' has Lisa pretend she was an intellectual to impress a boy she liked because he scoffed at her real personality.
* In the TV series of ''Literature/TrainMan2004'', Yamada gets a makeover before going on a first date with Saori, as he's an Otaku but doesn't want her to know that he's one (Saori wasn't wearing her contact lenses when he defended her, so she didn't know what he looked like). Later on, it turns out that she's fine with his Otaku nature, and she has a good time in Akihabara when Yamada takes her there.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In one episode, Cat meets a boy while she was wearing a blonde wig for a short film she was shooting. She lets him think she's a natural blonde as she worries that's the only reason he asked her out. However, eventually her wig is knocked off and the boy sees her actual hair. He admits he thinks she's beautiful, but doesn't like that she lied to him and breaks it off with her.
* One two-parter from ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' sees Budnick fall in love with Dina and force himself to become the classy, nice guy that he assumes she wants. This ends up backfiring, as well she is initially flattered by his attempts to change, she finds the "respectable" and "composed" Budnick boring, and tries to get him to dump her and go back to normal.
* ''Series/{{Suburgatory}}'': In one episode, Lisa develops a crush on a new boy at school. However, Tessa believes he's gay after she keeps catching him staring at the jocks. Lisa isn't phased, and aggressively pursues him. She even starts dressing up as a boy in order to get his attention. In the end, [[spoiler: it's revealed he was actually an undercover narcotics officer who was posing as a teenager to catch a jock who was using steroids. He also had a wife.]]
[[AC:Music]]
* The Music/BigTimeRush song "Any Kind Of Guy" is about the guys announcing their intent to become any kind of guy the girl might want:
--> Changing my point of view
--> Everyday something new
--> Anything to get next to you (gonna get to you)
* Music/BowlingForSoup: "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" is about the singer crushing on a "chick a little cooler" than him. Because she's into things like wrestling, mustaches, and rap metal, he admits in one verse that now ''he's'' watching wrestling, listening to rap metal, and struggling to grow a mustache.
* Deliberately averted in the song "Just the Way You Are" by Music/BillyJoel
-->Don't go changing to try and please me.
-->You never let me down before.
* The 60's standard "Wishin' and Hopin'", first recorded by Dusty Springfield, exhorts the listener to stop moping around and start changing yourself to get your man:
-->"Do the things he likes to do/Wear your hair just for him"
* In "Pristine" by Snail Mail, told from the perspective of an insecure lover, asks their crush who they change for (a.k.a. who they really like), and then offers to make herself into her lover's type of girl:
--> Out out of everyone, who's your type of girl?"
-->[...]"I can be anyone."
* In "The Beers" by Music/TheFrontBottoms, the narrator is taking steroids because his girlfriend [[WomenPreferStrongMen likes a man with muscles]].
[[AC:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/TheAddamsFamily'', Wednesday Addams changes from a sombre, unorthodox young woman who wears black to a cheerful, [[GirlNextDoor generic]] young woman who wears yellow for her love interest, a guy who is basically just the definition of generic.
* ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'': The first sign that Benedick had fallen in love with Beatrice is when he shaved his beard. Earlier in the play Beatrice had mentioned how she could not stand the thought of kissing a man with a beard.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FableI'': {{Parodied|Trope}} in a {{Sidequest}} where a man promises to introduce the Hero to his daughter if he gets "her favourite" haircut -- a GagHaircut that takes three trips to the barber. He then admits that it was a joke to [[BullyingADragon make the Hero look silly]] and that he doesn't have a daughter.
* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': One way of eliminating your rival peacefully is finding out what her type of boy is, find the boy who has a crush on her, and convince him to change his appearance to the one the rival finds attractive. If the rival finds an intelligent boy attractive, Yandere-chan will help the suitor study and then impress the rival with his wisdom.
[[AC:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/ActuallyHappened'': In "I Lost All My Hair Because My Boyfriend Made Me Become Blonde", Kimberly dyes her brunette hair blonde because she heard that her crush liked blondes.
* ''WebVideo/{{Dad}}'': In Daughter's attempts to attract her crush, the BigManOnCampus Griffin, she decided to [[ImportantHaircut cut her hair]], rationalizing that she liked short hair too, in a way that made it pretty apparent this isn't something she'd have done naturally.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:'' In the ''Princess Diaries 2'' review, [[StalkerWithACrush Hyper Fangirl]] kidnaps the Critic and bribes him to stick around by showing her all the nerdy, masculine media she supposedly likes. However, near the end of the review when he's [[AlmostKiss supposedly given in to her,]] he learns she has the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies. When she has a breakdown asking him to tell her which movies to like, he realizes she was just pretending to like most of these things to manipulate him to fall in love with her.
[[AC:Western Animation]]
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6Teen]]'': In "Lights Out", Starr, Jude's love interest, decides to go goth in pursuit of other interests. Jude tries to follow suit as well but both know that's not who he is and mutually break up over it. Which wouldn't be the first time [[RunningGag and won't be the last]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** In "Back in Black", Lucy dyes her hair blonde and wears a pink outfit instead of her usual black and white one, and starts talking like a ValleyGirl and avoiding mentioning her morbid interests, to impress her crush Rocky. It turns out Rocky has similar interests to her.
** In "White Hare", Lincoln dresses as a greaser to impress the new girl Stella. In "Be Stella My Heart", he slicks back his hair, Clyde [[TheGlassesGottaGo takes off his glasses]], and Rusty puts on a suit, again to impress Stella. Eventually, Stella becomes their platonic friend.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Zig-zagged in the episode "Simple Ways", Rarity isn't so much trying to change herself and imitating (what she thinks of) Applejack out of love to get Trenderhoof's attention so much as trying to impress him and getting jealous when he keeps focusing on Applejack whom he becomes smitten with. Played straight with Trenderhoof however near the end when he nearly decides to leave his job and city life to be a "country bumpkin" (even dressing in overalls) just out of his crush for AJ though she manages to talk him out of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'': In "Roll Around the Clock", Bright Eyes and Lancer are encouraged by their friends to change their looks and personalities to attract each other. Unfortunately, they liked each other the way they already were, and both end up being repulsed by the other's "new".
* The ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' episode "The Roxanne Problem" does this with an ImpliedLoveInterest. Cat meets another cat, Roxanne, and it's implied that he has a crush on her. In order to impress her, he pretends that he's GoodWithNumbers and has Peg lip-synch for him. when he reveals that he doesn't know squat about mathematics, she says that it's fine as he can always learn.
