Give Belle a white mink wrap, fancy dress, elegant jewelry, High-Class Fan, and loads of sparkles. The Disney Princesses thrive on these tropes.
Tropes about, or related to, beautiful people and things. If you see one of these tropes, a major aspect involves being as pleasing to the eye as possible.
Or pleasing in the beautiful sense, since some might find Stuff Blowing Up appealing to look at, but that's Rule of Cool.
Sure beauty might be only skin deep, but as always, Tropes Are Tools.
See also Attraction Tropes, Garnishing the Story.
Contrast Disgust Tropes and Ugliness Tropes.
Tropes
Related:
- Bejeweled Tropes
Pretty gems and jewels. - Cosmetics Tropes
Makup enhances beauty when applied correctly. - Costume Tropes
Clothing is often designed to be appealing. - Dresses, Gowns and Skirts
Most dresses are meant to be pretty. - Fanservice
The overlap between beauty and sex appeal. - Fashion and Modeling Tropes
Involves showcasing beauty. - Femininity Tropes
Being beautiful is a major aspect. - Improbable Appearance Tropes
Being beautiful can ignore reality in fiction. - Luxury Tropes
The most beautiful things are often the most expensive. - Magical Girl Tropes
These shows like pretty things. - The Makeover
To make one prettier. - Mary Sue Tropes
These characters are often the most beautiful. - Mink Becomes This Index Most
Furs are usually meant to be appealing. - Opulent Outfits
They aren't costly to look ugly. - Princess Tropes
A princess is usually beautiful in fiction. - Rule of Glamorous
Being beautiful helps our suspension of disbelief.
Subcategories:
- Delicate Is Beautiful
Making men feel better by protecting women, which means they see looking delicate as attractive. - A Pretty Boy Index
Tropes of bishie-ness.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: A tall, dark-haired beautiful woman with an aloof demeanor.
- Amazonian Beauty: A muscular woman who is attractive.
- Angelic Beauty: Their beauty is literally heavenly.
- Agent Peacock: He's not going to let this job get in the way of being stylish.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: She's drop-dead gorgeous even though she's really a he.
- Attractiveness Discrimination: Judging people on if one finds them pretty or not.
- Attractiveness Isolation: Because she's pretty, people think she's too good for them, even when she'd be their friend.
- Attractive Zombie: Well, at least she wants you for your brains.
- Beast and Beauty: A monstrous-looking character and a beautiful-looking character are a romantic couple.
- Beautiful All Along: A pretty person is either disguised, cursed, or just wore their hair the wrong way (and had glasses).
- The Beautiful Elite: The ruling class are also the prettiest.
- Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim: Beautiful characters are more likely to be victims of sexual harassment or assault.
- Beautiful Singing Voice: Regardless of physical appearance, this character has an angelic voice.
- Beautiful Slave Girl: And... she's attracting the attention of her master.
- Beautiful Tears: Somehow, tears make this character cuter or more beautiful.
- Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The first member of this Power Trio can have many skills, but is still the prettiest.
- Beauty Breeds Laziness: Someone uses their looks to avoid work.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: When fiction casts ugly people as villains.
- Beauty Is Bad: Being attractive doesn't make you nice.
- Beauty Is Best: Attractiveness is considered above other qualifying factors.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Fiction makes sure one's looks never get scuffed up.
- Beauty to Beast: Used to look good, now one is a monster.
- Big Beautiful Man: Being overweight doesn't mean one still can't otherwise look nice.
- Big Beautiful Woman: The curves and big bones just add to her looks.
- Bishie Sparkle: Anime sparkles represent beauty.
- Bishōnen: A delicate, androgynous man and boy who is attractive in East Asian media.
- Blemished Beauty: A character is perceived as attractive despite outward imperfections.
- Brainless Beauty: Looks don't substitute for education.
- Circassian Beauty: If she's from the Caucasus Mountains, she's the pinnacle of feminine beauty.
- Costume Porn: Nine times out of ten, detailed costumes are pretty costumes.
- Crystal Landscape: This Scenery Porn is Gem-Encrusted.
- Cuteness Equals Forgiveness: Looking pretty means it's all okay.
- The Dandy: This guy values looks and fashion.
- Delusions of Beauty: The character thinks they're gorgeous, even though everyone else disagree.
- Easy Sex Change: Thanks to modern medicine, the most beautiful women are the ones who used to be men.
- Elegant Classical Musician: You aren't playing Carnegie Hall looking like a schlep.
- Ermine Cape Effect: Royalty makes sure their portraits always look their best, including wearing their regalia, so fiction shows them in regalia all the time.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: When blondes are seen as more beautiful than other hair colors.
- Everything's Better with Sparkles: Sparkles make everything pretty.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Jewels having no practical purpose, but certainly a stylish one.
- Fair Cop: You have the right to stop undressing them with your eyes.
- Fairytale Wedding Dress: A bride wants to look like a beautiful princess on her wedding.
- Femme Fatale: Her looks could get away with murder (if not already).
- Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Plumes and down on stylish clothes just look appealing.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Gold adds visual flair.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: You'll turn to stone even before you turn to stone.
- Gorgeous Greek: People from Greece are portrayed as attractive.
- Gorgeous Period Dress: Everyone dressed grandly in that part of the past.
- Handsome Lech: An attractive Casanova Wannabe.
- Happy Holidays Dress: It's the most glamorous time of the year, so dress like it.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Characters are clearly attracted to her on sight.
- Hello, Attorney!: Guess Vogue and GQ run the bar exam.
- Hired for Their Looks: Especially if they have few proper qualifications for the job.
- Hollywood Beauty Standards: Fiction makes people more good-looking than in real life.
- Hospital Hottie: Attractive medical personnel.
- Hot Consort: Whether a chief, king, or empress, your spouse or concubine(s) should be among the most beautiful people in the land.
- Hot God: Makes you get on your knees for several reasons.
- Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: Well, clearly he doesn't think she's ugly.
- Hot Librarian: Because good literacy is beautifying.
- Hot Men at Work: Women on the street should be catcalling them.
- Hot Teacher: The teacher is making some of the students hot and bothered.
- Hot Witch: A witch who is a bombshell rather than an ugly, old hag.
- Hunk: A tall muscular man who is very handsome, often with a Lantern Jaw of Justice.
- I Am Not Pretty: Denying one's looks (whether true or not)
- I Just Want to Be Beautiful: Aspiring to be attractive.
- Indifferent Beauty: If other people find them attractive, they just shrug.
- Informed Attractiveness: Characters are very open about finding certain people attractive.
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race: Our 7 is their 1.
- I Was Quite a Looker: A character who used to be good-looking years ago.
- Lascivious Beauty Mark: A facial beauty mark is used to characterize someone as flirtatious, seductive, generally sexually forward, and/or highly desired In-Universe.
- Lipstick Lesbian: This hot girl has the hots for other girls.
- Little Black Dress: Being pretty, in a simple, but timeless and stylish, way.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Long hair just makes this Pretty Boy look better.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Past the shoulder adds to conventional attractiveness.
- Looks Worth Killing For: Their beauty justifies the means.
- Lovely Assistant: Yes her eyes are up there, but I'm putting the ace of diamonds in the deck well over here.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: It seems good looks and the urge to conquer the universe For Science! like to alternate generations.
- Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty: Men are attractive as long as they're active and/or physically strong or strive to become so. Women are born attractive and if they're not, nothing but plastic surgery will ever make them attractive.
- Mermaid Arc Emergence: Emerging from water in a beautiful, sometimes even sexually so, way.
- Mixed Ancestry is Attractive: Being mixed race is inherently more exotic and attractive than not.
- Model Couple: They were paired for this ad because their looks complement each other.
- Obliviously Beautiful: Doesn't get when people find them hot.
- Parasol of Prettiness: A classical sign of feminine beauty.
- Pimped-Out Dress: The decorations are meant to make the dress, and lady, even prettier.
- Plastic Bitch: People who use surgery to look prettier are unpleasant.
- Pretty Boy: A delicate, androgynous man and boy who is attractive in Western media.
- Pretty in Mink: A luxury fur garment is meant to look good.
- Pretty Princess Powerhouse: Being pretty and of royalty doesn't mean she can't kick ass.
- Progressively Prettier: As the series, franchise, etc. goes on, this person looks more and more attractive.
- Proud Beauty: Proud of their good looks.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Dark hair makes this pale person pretty/handsome.
- Redheads Are Ravishing: Red hair is associated with attractiveness.
- Requisite Royal Regalia: Wouldn't help make the wearer look regal if the items were plain or ugly.
- Ridiculously Photogenic: Even their DMV pictures come out nice.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: I'm hot, so I can get away with it.
- Seductive Mummy: Mummification either didn't take away her looks, or is altered by magic.
- Sexiness Score: Ranking, rating, or scoring a character's attractiveness and sexual desirability.
- Sexy Santa Dress: So one can be hot with Christmas cheer.
- Sexy Surfacing Shot: A person looks more beautiful when emerging from the water.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: A tailored suit means he's rich, so he must be more attractive.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: This person was surprisingly easy to make pretty.
- Sliding Scale of Beauty: Tropes Are Flexible explicitly applied to beauty.
- Smoking Is Glamorous: The beautiful people make a cigarette look beautiful.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: When beauty has its drawbacks.
- Statuesque Stunner: A lady is pretty and tall.
- Stylish Protection Gear: Your spacesuit, Hazmat Suit, diving gear, etc. is designed look stylish, while still functioning perfectly.
- Sultry Bangs: The use of eye-covering bangs to denote sensuality or seductiveness.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The quintessential description of a man who is supposed to be attractive—tall, dark-haired and dark-eyed, and good-looking.
- Tarnishing Their Own Beauty: A beautiful character intentionally downplays or outright ruins their beauty for plot reasons.
- True Beauty Is on the Inside: What you find attractive about this person isn't their looks.
- Ugly All Along: An ugly character uses make-up magic (or actual magic) to make themselves look beautiful.
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Either this girl had a hot mom, or her dad's looks skipped a generation.
- Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Well, at least the wife wasn't judging on looks (unless she's a Gold Digger).
- Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain: When fiction doesn't cast the ugly people as villains.
- Unkempt Beauty: You don't need to have a beauty regimen to look nice.
- Vain Sorceress: Something about magic that attracts the narcissistic.
- Wasted Beauty: So beautiful they could be a heartrob, too bad they have serious flaws or quirks that (former) admirers find repulsive.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: They never need to say "My eyes are up here."
- When She Smiles: If your smile is rare, that makes it look even more attractive.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: Certified by an impartial committee, this woman's looks surpass all others.
