History Main / FairestOfThemAll

* The video for the "Music/FosterthePeople" song "Best Friend" involves a model who steals the beauty of other models by literally devouring them.

* Played with in the ''Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' adaptation ''Literature/WhiteAsSnow''. Arpazia is more interested in her lost youth, which she believes her daughter Coira represents. But she does want to be beautiful, i.e. find the girlhood that was stolen from her.

* In the [[OlderThanFeudalism The Judgement of Paris]], Eris ([[AlwaysChaoticEvil goddess of chaos]]) throws a golden apple with 'For the Fairest' on it into a wedding party. After ''years'' of fighting (as in, the son of the bride and groom has grown up into the world's greatest fighter), Zeus finally picks a very handsome mortal to act as the judge between the three finalists - Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Long story short, [[EpicFail the Trojan War happened.]]

* In "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sevendwarfs/stories/goldtree.html Gold Tree and Silver Tree]]", the mother, Silver Tree, feigned illness and pretended to need to eat her daughter's heart and liver to get well; then she tried, twice, to poison her.

* In Lucy Daniel Raby's ''Nikolai of the North'', the WickedWitch Magda is pretty obsessed with power too, but her chief priority is her matchless beauty [[spoiler:which can be maintained only by sucking out childhood from children and turning them into obedient marionettes with no feelings]].

* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has a male example in Vega, a Spanish ninja whose defining trait is narcissism and admiration of beauty, especially his own, to the point that he goes berserk if any damage is done to his face and tries to murder those he deems ugly. He retains these traits in ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie, the ''Film/StreetFighter'' live-action movie, and ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV''.

* There's a short story by Matthew Hughes, IIRC, in which a man wishes to be the richest, most intelligent, and most attractive person around and the being granting the wish responds by making everyone else poorer, stupider, and uglier.

* Countess ElizabethBathory reputedly [[BloodBath bathed in the blood of young women to regain her beauty.]]

* Spectra from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. In her first episode, she feeds off children's misery so that she'll remain looking youthful. Her second appearance is similar to the ''Totally Spies'' example above, except she used the parts for a body for herself.

** [[TallDarkAndHandsome It didn't]] [[ChickMagnet work.]]

Very rarely will you find this situation {{Gender Flip}}ped.

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* The video for the "Music/FosterthePeople" song "Best Friend" involves a model who steals the beauty of other models by literally devouring them.
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* Texas based valet Venus decided she wanted to become a wrestler and set out on a journey to wrestle in every part of the country. Along the way Venus decided she should be the only pretty person in wrestling and began attacking the faces of her opponents, although she made an exception when she found Serena Deeb, who aided Venus as her R.A.T.S. TagTeam partner.[[/folder]]

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* The video for the music/FosterthePeople song "Best Friend" involves a model who steals the beauty of other models by literally devouring them.

Every villain does what they do for a reason. The CardCarryingVillain wants to be [[EvilIsCool evil and cool]]. The DiabolicalMastermind wants money... ''more'' [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney money]], most likely. The StalkerWithACrush "wants" TheHero. The EvilOverlord wants to TakeOverTheWorld ( [[Film/StreetFighter Of Course!]] ).

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* In ''LightNovel/TheTwelveKingdoms'', the former Queen of Kei banished all the other women from her kingdom so that she would be the most beautiful and there would be [[{{Yandere}} no chance of Keiki paying more attention to them than to her]]. Those that would not or could not leave were executed.
* The Anime Adaptation of ''Snow White'' ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirayuki_Hime_no_Densetsu Shirayuki Hime no Densetsu]]'' (''The Legend of Princess Snow White'') has the wicked stepmother trying a GrandTheftMe instead. And it's not her first time.

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* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': Trakeena had a monster go around stealing girls' beauty and putting it in a jar in the form of gold dust, which left their skin covered in purple and yellow squares.

* Used by ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'', in which a cursed mirror could steal a person's beauty, killing them in an accident shortly thereafter.
* Averted in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' of all places. Despite the rivalry between Regina (the Evil Queen) and Snow White being one of the main plot points, this is never cited as a reason for it. Regina actually wants Snow dead because she holds her responsible for the death of her true love, and subsequent loss of happiness. There's never even any indication that Snow is supposed to be more beautiful than than Regina, personal preferences aside anyway.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': The girls uncover a modeling agency that steals the most beautiful parts of other girls to make their models perfect, including Clover's legs, Sam's teeth, and Alex's hair.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': Snow White was no better than her WickedStepmother. She had the dwarves abduct Dot for being the cutest of the all. [[spoiler:In the end, after Snow is defeated, Dot had the MagicMirror covered so it'd be no longer able to have anyone DrivenByEnvy.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': When Sofia arrived at the castle, Prince James told Princess Amber she'd no longer be the fairest of them all.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Beauty Is Only Smurf Deep", Periwinkle the pixie is so vain and beautiful that when her magic mirror shows Vanity Smurf to be just as handsome, she gets so jealous that she goes as far as to give her competition a lethal mud bath... but fortunately for her, Vanity is such an understanding soul when it comes to the burdens that she bears (of being perfect in a world of imperfection) that she allows the Smurfs to save Vanity without putting up a fight.

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* In the BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy fantasy ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'', the BigBad responsible for the disappearances of village girls by various means is a VainSorceress who cast a spell on herself hundreds of years ago to live forever when plague ravaged her kingdom -- not realizing that the spell couldn't prevent her from aging and rotting. She needs the girls so she can enact a complex ritual involving an eclipse, a mixture of blood samples from each, etc. to steal their beauty and restore her own. [[spoiler: Her first words once she's lovely again are "Who is the fairest of them all now?" The poor, "sleeping" beauties are saved first by her defeat and second by TrueLovesKiss.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/SnowWhiteATaleOfTerror''. Claudia isn't so much wanting to be fairest in the land as to be more beautiful than Lilli for two reasons: first, because she can surpass the shadow of Frederich's first wife, second, because her beauty is all she has left as a wife after a stillbirth leaves her barren.

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* ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. In "A Feast of Crows" the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, up till that point famed for her beauty, is starting to show the signs of middle age and becomes obsessed with bringing down the future Queen Margaery, because of a prophecy Cersei heard as a youth that she would be overthrown by a younger and more beautiful queen.

* Famously parodied in ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', where there is apparently a list of the land's most beautiful women, and it is revised every year. Much of the narration about Buttercup's adolescence is about her progress up the list's rankings.
* Played with in the ''Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' adaptation ''Literature/WhiteAsSnow''. Arpazia is more interested in her lost youth, which she believes her daughter Coira represents. But she does want to be beautiful i.e. find the girlhood that was stolen from her.

* One of the quests in ''VideoGame/{{Darkstone}}'' features Mika the witch, who placed a curse on a nearby village. If any of the women in the village ever became more beautiful than Mika, she would be turned to stone. Although Mika was very beautiful in her youth, by the time of the game she's about a million years old, so all of the women are stone. The player character must locate the Mirror of Lies, which will convince her that she's still beautiful; once she believes that, she'll undo the curse.
* ''VideoGame/LivingLegends'' Frozen Beauty takes this UpToEleven: not only the evil Queen wants to become the fairest in the land, she also wants to become the fairest for ''all eternity''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Beauty Is Only Smurf Deep", Periwinkle the pixie is so vain and beautiful that when her magic mirror shows Vanity Smurf to be just as handsome, she gets so jealous that she goes as far as to give her competition a lethal mud bath...but fortunately for her Vanity is such an understanding soul when it comes to the burdens that she bears of being perfect in a world of imperfection that she allows the Smurfs to save Vanity without putting up a fight.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Gruntilda the witch sought to be the most beautiful person in the world, and created a "beauty extractor" to that end. She then set off to kidnap the fairest maiden in the land--who turned out to be the hero's little sister: a cross between Goldilocks and a bear.