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* The first is to reinforce that BeautyEqualsGoodness, where the evil but deceitfully beautiful character is revealed to be as ugly as they are at heart. In this kind of plotline, expect the character to be an AlphaBitch or a VainSorceress, and TheReveal of their truly hideous face is often treated as a part of their inevitable [[HumiliationConga comeuppance]].

* EvilMakesYouUgly in the world of ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', and the bewitchingly charming but Wicked [[spoiler:Evanora]] is revealed to be using magic to hide her grotesque appearance so that she can deceive Oscar [[spoiler:and even her sister Theodora]] into believing that she's a good Witch. When her magic fades, she reverts to an ugly, old hag.

* Maurice Cole from ''Manga/BlackButler'' is considered one of the the most beautiful boy in Weston College. He enjoys immense popularity thanks to his cherubic charms, and manipulates his way into power, having his goons do all his duties and/or steal other people's works so that he can claim credit and appeal himself to the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil. He antagonizes Ciel for stealing his spotlight, but is eventually outsmarted by the main character, and the HumiliationConga he suffers culminates in Ciel spreading photographs of his real face (he has droopy eyes, upturned nose and too-thick lips) to the whole school.

There's this character: they're beautiful, and they know it. They might even [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful exploit their charms to their advantage]] and/or ridicule those who are less attractive than they are. Too bad their beauty is all fake. Underneath all their make-up (or {{glamour}}, in more fantastical settings), they're not actually that pretty. In fact, they're usually [[{{Gonk}} really ugly]]; or perhaps they've aged badly, and is hiding their deteriorated appearance because they're not naturally [[OlderThanTheyLook youthful looking]].

* ''LightNovel/TheHiddenDungeonOnlyICanEnter'': Lola, the personal AdventureGuild receptionist for [[TheHero Noir]], panics when Noir walks into the Guild on a day she wasn't expecting, and rushes into the back to put on her makeup. Though the audience doesn't see it, both Noir and [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Emma]] are taken aback by how different Lola looks without it. PlayedWith from here, as while Noir states that ''he'' still thinks Lola is cute, Lola herself is terrified of being seen without her cosmetics, and Emma (who is [[LoveTriangle Lola's biggest rival for Noir's affections]]) calls her "Cake Face" and insults Lola's barefaced appearance. Noir is a NiceGuy and Emma is jealous of Lola, so both can be considered {{Unreliable Narrator}}s.

* ''WesternAnimation/FoodFight'': Madam X is introduced as a sexy FemmeFatale, trying to use her looks and wiles to seduce protagonist Dex Dogtective. By the end of the movie it's revealed that [[spoiler: her true form is that of a wrinkled old woman befitting the mascot of a prune company and she had gone to Brazil for plastic surgery... which somehow is undone by getting punched by the female lead]].

* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' has Vivi, a very attractive, [[GagBoobs buxom]] vampiress who runs a salon in [[BigBad Dr. Neurosis']] castle. After Lance manages to escape from her, and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she gets put through the facial machine she earlier attempted to kill him with]], she comes out of it looking like an ugly, bloated old hag.

* Most of the denizens of the Tomb of Nazarick from ''LightNovel/{{Overlord}}'' are non-humans. While many of them wear attractive human(oid) forms, such as the Pleiades and the female floor guardians, it is implied that their true form is ''truly'' alien and disturbing by human standards.
** The two most standout examples are Albedo and Shalltear, who both appear to be a beautiful succubus and vampiress, respectively. We've never seen Albedo's true form, but her profile states that her base race class is an Imp (a type of small demon with bulbous heads, huge mouths and ScaryTeeth),[[note]]She also shares a base class race with Demiurge, who occasionally morphs into a frog-like being, although it's unclear if ''that's'' his "true form" either.[[/note]] and her eyes and mouth have a habit of warping into inhuman shapes when she's excited or angry. Shalltear's true form, however, is outright monstrous, with a massive, round LampreyMouth and tongue which constantly hangs from its opening.
** Solution Epsilon is easily the most conveniently attractive of the Pleiades, having a voluptuous figure and skimpy maid uniform that emphasizes her sex appeal. Like Albedo, her true form has never been revealed, but we know that she's a slime, whose default form is that of a blob monster. Her creator, Herohero, is of a similar race and looks like a lump of black goo.

* In the original pilot for ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', the crew of the ''Enterprise'' encounter Vina, the survivor of a shipwreck who looks like a beautiful woman. It's later revealed that they are in an alien zoo, controlled by a species capable of creating powerful illusions; Vina is revealed to have been seriously disfigured when the ship she was on crash-landed, so she chose to stay on that planet because there her injuries can be hidden.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Zigzagged in the episode "Eye Of The Beholder", a woman is kept in a hospital to perform plastic surgery on her face, because she has seemingly developed a condition that has distorted her face beyond all recognition, a "pitiful twisted lump of flesh", as described by the doctors and nurses. The woman convinces her doctor to remove the bandages covering her face early. Tensely, they do so, until... it's revealed that she is perfectly normal. Beautiful, in fact. The twist is that when the doctors and nurses, in-shadow from the very beginning of the episode, are finally revealed to have grotesque sagging faces with pig-like-noses, and the world that these beings live in has beauty standards that are completely reversed compared to human standards, and is also a dictatorship that shuns and persecutes people who are comparatively beautiful.

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Compare ButterFace, who has a hideous face (which they don't usually hide) but an otherwise alluring body, and may mislead interested onlookers who only caught a glimpse of their silhouette.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "Dino Goes Hollyrock" has Dino become smitten with TV star Sassie, but he loses interest after seeing what a fright she is without her wig and makeup.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "Dino Goes Hollyrock" has Dino become smitten with TV star Sassie, but losing interest after seeing what a fright she is without her wig and makeup.

* Discussed in ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'': Lilah the [[HornyDevils succubus]] is described as incredibly sexy and erotic, as one would expect from a sex demon. In ''Wielding a Red Sword'', Mars chooses to take her as his concubine, and she warns him that the beautiful form he sees is ''not'' her real form, which humans would consider hideous. Mars simply shrugs and tells her that all beauty is a form of illusion, so what's the difference between a {{glamour}} and some makeup? As long as he never sees her true appearance, it might as well not exist to him.

* One episode of ''Anime/AlicesAdventuresInWonderlandJP'' is centered around a competition for the hand of a supposedly beautiful princess, whose face is invisible from all the diamonds she is wearing. Then the winner knight asks her to remove these diamonds, and it turns out her beauty is very much exaggerated. Fortunately, once he removes his helmet in return, they turn out to look similar enough that LoveAtFirstSight follows for both of them.

There's this character: they're beautiful, and they know it--they might even [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful exploit it to their advantage]] and/or ridicule those who are less attractive than they are. Too bad their beauty is all fake. Underneath all their make-up (or {{glamour}}, in more fantastical settings), they're not actually that pretty. In fact, they're usually [[{{Gonk}} really ugly]]; or perhaps they've aged badly, and is hiding their deteriorated appearance because they're not naturally [[OlderThanTheyLook youthful looking]].

* The first is to reinforce that BeautyEqualsGoodness, where the evil but deceitfully beautiful character is revealed to be as ugly as they are at heart. In this kind of plotlines, expect the character to be an AlphaBitch or a VainSorceress, and TheReveal of their truly hideous face is treated as a part of their inevitable [[HumiliationConga comeuppance]].

** The first is to reinforce that BeautyEqualsGoodness, where the evil but deceitfully beautiful character is revealed to be as ugly as they are at heart. In this kind of plotlines, expect the character to be an AlphaBitch or a VainSorceress, and TheReveal of their truly hideous face is treated as a part of their inevitable [[HumiliationConga comeuppance]].
** Conversely, it can be used as AnAesop to BeYourself and that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside--the character learns that they don't have to hide their true appearance because people are attracted to their personality, rather than their fake beauty.

Often used as a PlotTwist, this trope can serve several different narrative functions. The first is to reinforce that BeautyEqualsGoodness, where the evil but deceitfully beautiful character is revealed to be as ugly as they are at heart. In this kind of plotlines, expect the character to be an AlphaBitch or a VainSorceress, and TheReveal of their truly hideous face is treated as a part of their inevitable [[HumiliationConga comeuppance]].

Conversely, it can be used as AnAesop to BeYourself and that TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside--the character learns that they don't have to hide their true appearance because people are attracted to their personality, rather than their fake beauty.

* ''Film/TheWitches2020'': The Grand High Witch downplays this, compared to other adaptations. She looks pretty when we first see her with a blonde wig, lipstick and makeup. Unlike other adaptations, her face ''isn't'' a mask, but she's still a [[BaldOfEvil bald woman with ScaryTeeth rather sharp teeth]] and an eerily wide mouth.

* The title character from ''Manga/{{Kasane}}'' is cruelly bullied by her classmates for not only being ugly but also for claiming to be the daughter of the beautiful actress, Fuchi Sukeyo. However, it is revealed that Kasane's mother (actually named Izana) is actually just as ugly as she is, but she had been using a [[AppliedPhlebotinum special lipstick]] that allows her to swap faces with the actual Fuchi Sukeyo and used her name and face to become a famous actress. Kasane later uses this lipstick to do the same thing to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a famous actress herself.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' has Typhon [=DeLeon=], the first Vault Hunter. Numerous posters across the game advertise a film called [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/typhon_poster.jpg "Typhon DeLeon and the First Vault"]], starring a dashing, clean-cut actor named Dante Silver in the role of Typhon. When the PlayerCharacter finally gets to meet him, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/typhon_1.jpg turns out he's a]] {{Gonk}}.

** The two most standout examples are Albedo and Shalltear, who both appear to be a beautiful succubus and vampiress, respectively. We've never seen Albedo's true form, but her profile states that her base race class is an Imp (a type of small demon with bulbous heads, huge mouths and ScaryTeeth)[[note]]She also shares a base class race with Demiurge, who occasionally morphs into a frog-like being, although it's unclear if ''that's'' his "true form" either.[[/note]], and her eyes and mouth have a habit of warping into inhuman shapes when she's excited or angry. Shalltear's true form, however, is outright monstrous, with a massive, round LampreyMouth and tongue which constantly hangs from its opening.

* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'': Emi Isuzu, Mitsuomi's second-in-command, looks like a slender and beautiful girl thanks to her body fat contortion technique. When it's not in effect, she's morbidly obese.

* In one Future!''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' storyline, the unattractive, buck-toothed Ethel tries out a MagicPlasticSurgery program to attract the attention of a local hunk, and manages to win his love. But as their relationship develops, she feels bad about lying to him and reverts to her true appearance before confessing the whole truth to him. Later, it is revealed that the hunk in question is actually a scrawny, unpopular teen who had used the same MagicPlasticSurgery procedure that Ethel was offered. The story ends with the two getting to know each other for real.

* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'': Emi Isuzu, Mitsuomi's second-in-command, looks like a slender and beautiful girl thanks to her body fat contortion technique. When it's not in effect, she is [=MASSIVE=].