History Main / FreakyIsCool

* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', Kiel'ndia and Naal'suul's relationship [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1114 began this way]].

-->'''Ragdoll''': ''It just goes to show that sometimes the scars are on the inside, like with [[{{LexLuthor}} Luthor]] and that [[{{VandalSavage}} Vandal fellow]], and [[{{SecretSix}} my friends]], too. Which is much less fun and only half as sexy. I pity them, to man, if you must know. Better to be odd and whole than normal and broken, I always say. Rats. I sure hope I start to decompose soon!''

* Often experienced by Nightcrawler in the ''Comicbook/XMen'' franchise. Every time he feels a little put off by his appearance, he meets someone who ''really'' likes it. Usually an available woman whose fetish is, coincidentally, pointed tails, blue fur, and CuteLittleFangs. This is enough of a theme in his life that "[[CursedWithAwesome chicks dig the fuzzy guy]]" is the ''default'' view on Kurt's appearance; it only starts being portrayed as genuinely freaky when it's his turn in the X-Men Angst Hotseat.

* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm]], with his blind girl friend Alicia. Hell everybody loves Ben Grimm.

* Disney Adventures magazine once ran a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' one-shot comic about Lisa venturing under the school to discover mutant substitute teachers. The mutants loved to teach, but were forced to hide underground ages ago because people were afraid of their hideous appearance. Lisa assures them things are different now...and the last page shows one of the mutants substituting for Mrs. Krabopple's class. Children cry out, jump, Bart shouts out "He's a mutant freak!"...and then they erupt into cheers, shouting how cool it is, and "Teach us everything you know, Freak-Man!" [[CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming And the mutant smiles, shedding a happy tear.]]

* In the epilogue of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', [[spoiler:Raiden finally meets his son, who initially recoils upon seeing him. Raiden asks if he's scared, but the kid says he thinks Raiden's like a comic book superhero. Apparently he was watching (or told about) Raiden's [[Awesome/MetalGear big scenes.]]]] He even [[WeaponJr flourishes his toy katana like Raiden did in MGS2]]. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* Hypatia in ''[[{{Literature/Baudolino}} Baudolino,]]'' who is [[TheReveal revealed]] to [[spoiler: have goat legs under her dress (her father was a [[GreekMythology satyr).]]]] Baudolino is already so in love with her by that point that he decides they're beautiful.

* The popularity of a lot of eccentric musicians, despite their odd music; behaviour, fashions and outer appearance is a result of this trope: Music/GeorgeClinton, Music/MarilynManson, Music/FrankZappa, Music/KlausNomi, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/SydBarrett, Music/DanielJohnston, Music/TheBonzoDogBand, Music/InsaneClownPosse, Music/{{Slipknot}}, Music/TheFugs, Music/NinaHagen, Music/SunRa, Music/ScreaminJayHawkins, Music/LydiaLunch, Music/GenesisBreyerPOrridge, Music/JohnZorn, Music/{{Plasmatics}}, Music/LeeScratchPerry, Music/{{Moondog}}, Music/{{Nico}}, Music/YokoOno, Music/OingoBoingo, Music/TheResidents, Music/TomWaits, Music/RobZombie,...

* Another instance of this trope going awry comes in Mary-Lou's fondness for the quiet, odd Thomas Jerome Newton in ''TheManWhoFellToEarth'': Early on in their relationship, she says "You know Tommy, you're a freak. I don't mean that unkindly. I like freaks. And that's why I like you." She becomes his mistress, but she doesn't know the basis for his oddness -- he's actually a well-disguised RubberForeheadAlien. Their relationship is already struggling when he reveals his true form to her, and she reacts with horror and revulsion.

* Music/FrankZappa promoted freakiness in his work, most famously on ''Music/FreakOut''.

* In ''{{Durarara}}'', a young man named Shinra is infatuated with a female [[HeadlessHorseman Dullahan]] that he and his father have been sheltering for the last twenty years. The fact that she's ''missing a head'' just makes her cuter in his eyes.

* For all of her life, the title character from ''Anime/KotouraSan'' was ostracised by nearly everybody she knew, as a consequence of being a {{telepath|y}} who oftentimes had difficulty distinguishing between people's thoughts and their outward speech, and therefore had a tendency to [[InnocentlyInsensitive blurt out private information without realising it]]. She grew up friendless, and was raised by her grandfather after her parents divorced each other and disowned her. It wasn't until she started high school when she encountered [[ChivalrousPervert Manabe]], who reached out to her in spite of everything, did she ever see any change in her circumstances. In fact, he quite enjoyed the fact that she could read his mind, as he liked to [[DirtyMindReading imagine her in sexually compromising positions]] [[TheGadfly solely to tease her]]. In fact, when her power was blocked by a cold at one point, he found that it was no fun to fantasize about her ''unless'' she could see it.

* For all of her life, the title character from ''Anime/KotouraSan'' was ostracised by nearly everybody she knew, as a consequence of being a {{telepath|y}} who oftentimes has difficulty distinguishing between people's thoughts and their outward speech, and therefore had a tendency to [[InnocentlyInsensitive blurt out private information without realising it]]. She grew up friendless, and was raised by her grandfather after her parents divorced each other and disowned her. It wasn't until she started high school when she encountered [[ChivalrousPervert Manabe]], who reached out to her in spite of everything. In fact, he quite enjoyed the fact that she could read his mind, as he liked to [[DirtyMindReading imagine her in sexually compromising positions]] [[TheGadfly solely to tease her]]. In fact, when her power was blocked by a cold at one point, he found that it was no fun to fantasize about her ''unless'' she could see it.

* For all of life, the title character from ''Anime/KotouraSan'' was ostracised by nearly everybody in her life, as a consequence of being a {{telepath|y}} who oftentimes has difficulty distinguishing between people's thoughts and their outward speech, and therefore had a tendency to [[InnocentlyInsensitive blurt out private information without realising it]]. She grew up friendless, and was raised by her grandfather after her parents divorced each other and disowned her. It wasn't until she started high school when she encountered [[ChivalrousPervert Manabe]], who reached out to her in spite of everything. In fact, he quite enjoyed the fact that she could read his mind, as he liked to [[DirtyMindReading imagine her in sexually compromising positions]] [[TheGadfly solely to tease her]]. In fact, when her power was blocked by a cold at one point, he found that it was no fun to fantasize about her ''unless'' she could see it.

* Happens to Lucy of ''ElfenLied'' when, [[StartOfDarkness as a child]], she's befriended on two occasions by other children who think she looks cool, being blissfully unaware of her frequent lapses of [[KillAllHumans psychotic misanthropy]] and [[PersonOfMassDestruction ability to tear people apart with her mind]]. [[spoiler: Both occasions end in tragedy for all involved, and generally cause her to slip into even deeper depths of loathing for humanity and callousness concerning harming and killing them - [[MoralityChain with one crucial exception]].]]

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', Kiel'ndia and Naal'suul's relationship [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1114 began this way]].
* Used in ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' in regards to Nimmel. Normally, he keeps his [[EyeScream facial scar]] hidden under his hair. But when he meets the werewolves of the Winter Archipeligo, he finds that they think scars are cool. Later on, he styles his hair so that the eye is always visible.
* The cast of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''... they aren't easily freaked out, to the point where [[{{Jumanji}} Goonmanji]] in "[[BSideComics Newspaper]]" [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth failed to impress them much]]. Especially Tedd. In-continuity he wasn't even surprised when his crush turned out to be a {{shapeshifter}} and commented on various [[ShapeShifterMashup hybrid forms]] she assumed later exclusively in FetishFuel terms. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-08-21 His reaction]] when [[VitriolicBestBuds Susan]] demonstrated magic-related knowledge?

* Used in one particular SamAndFuzzy, where a newly turned werewolf decides to remain one rather than being turned back to human, because he and his girlfriend are "into that". [[{{Squick}} Sam doesnt see the appeal.]]

* Back in the 1980s, one of [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Championship Wrestling From Florida]] and the USWA's attractions were "Freaks & Geeks", a monstrously large {{power stable}} made up of the usually {{heel}} and monstrous Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, Dragon Master, Awesome Kong ([[Wrestling/KiaStevens not that one]]), Leatherface, [[Wrestling/TheMoondogs all four Moondogs]] (Rex, Spot, Cujo, Rover) [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] Wrestling/EddieGilbert.

* Back in the 1980s, one of [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Championship Wrestling From Florida]] and the USWA's attractions were "Freaks & Geeks", a monstrously large {{power stable}} made up of the usually {{heel}} and monstrous Wrestling/{{Kamala}}, Dragon Master, Awesome Kong ([[Wrestling/KiaStevens not that one]]), Leatherface, all four Moondogs (Rex, Spot, Cujo, Rover) [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and]] Wrestling/EddieGilbert.

* Subverted by the horror film ''{{May}}''. The title character meets a semi-{{Goth}} filmmaker artist type who finds her NoSocialSkills quirkiness attractive. As it turns out, [[spoiler:she screws up, badly, by revealing her strangeness to the point where she just freaks him the hell out.]]

->''"I think you freaky and I like it a lot."''

* Mistress Belmont, the "freak" half New England Championship Wrestling and later, Pro Wrestling Syndicate tag team "[[ShoutOut Freaks And Geeks]]". She possessed blue hair, red eyes, [[GogglesDoNothing a pointless set of goggles]], [[HearingVoices heard voices]] and preferred battering her opponents with chairs and whips to wrestling but it did not stop her from turning face.

* Jeckles The Jester and "The Warlord Of Weird" Sinn Bodhi actually competed to see who was the "true freak" of Vendetta Pro Wrestling. Well, Jeckles did, Bodhi more viewed Jeckles as a WorthyOpponent.

* Il Cognito's self proclaimed "Freakshow" stable in the Australian Wrestling Federation.

* For a few years during his most face-ish time, one of Kane's mottoes (thus emblazoned on some of his merchandise) was "FREAKS RULE!". For his own part, Kane is an abnormally large, strong, and tough man, with hideous burn scars that caused him to [[MaskPower wear a mask]] when he went out in public. ([[{{Retcon}} In a later storyline, the scars were revealed as purely a figment of his imagination and psychological trauma after being burned and raised...oddly, but that's just another type of freakiness.]])

* The early PunkMusic movement was freaky and different until punk also received a particular ''uniform'' and ''style'' you needed to adopt to be considered ''punk''. Johnny Rotten didn't like this evolution at all.

* In ''BigWolfOnCampus'', Lori thinks the [[CursedWithAwesome werewolf thing]] is kind of hot.

* Jerry Lewis, in France.

* {{Cyberpunk}}s, Ravers and {{Cybergoth}}s.

-->''Groovy.''