History Main / BeautyIsBest

See also ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful. Contrast TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside and AbilityOverAppearance. Compare HiredForTheirLooks and AllGuysWantCheerleaders (which usually works on this principle). Naturally, this trope is one of the most CommonMarySueTraits.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Within the tribe, the stronger a Kuja is, the more she's considered as beautiful, regardless of her looks. Boa Hancock, however, is not only the strongest woman of the Kuja, but also one of the two most beautiful women in the world. Hancock will always use her beauty to get away with things she doesn't want or seduce people to turn them into stone with her Devil Fruit abilities, which only work on people who love her. Her CatchPhrase is also "Why, you ask? Why, it is because I am beautiful". Luffy is the first one not to fall for her beauty, which she initially thought to be impossible.

* A male example is Guiche de Graumont from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', mostly seen as a [[PrincelyYoungMan male ojou]] and treated like beauty is everything. This is subverted during the series, thought, with CharacterDevelopment.

* ''CrusaderKings'' is an RPG/Strategy game hybrid in which you play as a series of medieval rulers. In the game if you play as a ruler who is Just, Kind and Diligent (some of the games most popular character traits) you are still not as well liked as if you play as a young queen who is simply Attractive.

* Georgette the show poodle from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' is totally absorbed in her appearance, justified in that she can rightfully boast being "six-time Grand National Champion!" As part of the rescue party aiming to recover Jenny from TheVillain's clutches, she's mostly TheLoad.

* Jessie of ''Film/TheNeonDemon'' lists through all the flaws and lack of skills she has to make it in life, but notes that she is pretty and "I can make money off pretty". Of course when she ''does'' make it as a supermodel, things go FromBadToWorse.

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' Sansa starts as this. She adores Joffrey, simply because he is very handsome (and a prince) and ignores him being very cruel, got her pet wolf killed and even tried to kill her sister. She also likes queen Cersei because of her beauty. She changes, however, throughout the series when she notices how beautiful people like Joffrey and Cersei keep hurting her, while ugly and disfigured people like Tyrion and Sandor Clegane try to protect her.

* Creator/HedyLamarr - an actress from the Golden Age of Hollywood - wrote about this in her autobiography. She was actually quite the genius - helping develop the technology that would eventually become cellphones and wifi. But it was World War II and she was instead used to sell war bonds, and spent most of her life having her beauty valued over her mind.
--> "My face has been my misfortune."
* Helen of ''Literature/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' recalls taking a look at herself in the mirror one day, analysing her flaws and seeing if she could work with them. She dieted to achieve a slimmer figure, used rinses to bring out the colour in her blonde hair and learned how to apply flattering make-up. She's then able to live by herself in a nice apartment at the age of nineteen because she wins a contest to become the local weather girl. She doesn't know if she's able to do anything else in life because she's only ever been valued for her beauty.

* The Creator/RichardRich directed ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' animated feature in which Princess Odette creates an awkward situation by asking Prince Derek what he likes about her ''besides'' her beauty. He asks, "What else is there?" In fact, they had the film nearly finished before test audience pointed out that Derek didn't appear to have learned to look beyond beauty - so he declares to [[spoiler: the apparently dying Odette]] "I love your kindness and courage".

->'''Derek:''' (genuinely baffled) ...What else is there?
-->-- '''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'''

->''"Nobody cares about the talent. There's only one talent you care about, and that's the look talent. You don't give a shit if a girl can play a violin like the greatest violinist in the world. You want to know what does she look like."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump'''

* Georgette the show poodle from Disney's ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' is totally absorbed in her appearance, justified in that she can rightfully boast being "six-time Grand National Champion!" As part of the rescue party aiming to recover Jenny from TheVillain's clutches, she's mostly TheLoad.

* The Creator/RichardRich directed ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' animated feature in which Princess Odette creates an awkward situation by asking Prince Derek what he likes about her ''besides'' her beauty. He asks, "What else is there?"

-->--'''UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump'''

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Within the tribe, the stronger a Kuja is, the more she's considered as beautiful, regardless of her looks. Boa Hancock, however, is not only the strongest woman of the Kuja, but also one of the two most beautiful women in the world. Hancock will always use her beauty to get away with things she doesn't want or seduce people to turn them into stone with her Devil Fruit abilities, which only work on people who love her. Luffy is the first one not to fall for her beauty, which she initially thought to be impossible. Her CatchPhrase is also "Why, you ask? Why, it is because I am beautiful".

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* A male example is Guiche de Graumont from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', mostly seen as a [[PrincelyYoungMan male ojou]] and treated like beauty is everything. This is subverted during the series, thought, with CharacterDevelopment.

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See also ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful. Contrast TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside and AbilityOverAppearance. Compare HiredForTheirLooks and AllGuysWantCheerleaders (which usually works on this principle).

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->''"Even if she's a damned candidate for the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts Supreme Court]], the female always has a dual role: to function as a person, and to act as decor. And we get ''pissed'' if she doesn't do her job."''
-->--''Website/{{Cracked}}'', "[[http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women]]"

->''"With men, there are some scenarios where it stops mattering how he looks. With women, it ''always'' matters. In a comedy movie, the male wacky sidekick can be the chubby Zach Galifianakis or the nearly deformed Creator/SteveBuscemi. But if the female wacky sidekick isn't attractive, like the overweight Creator/MelissaMcCarthy in ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'', then ''every scene needs to be about how ugly and fat and mannish she is.'' That has to be the core of her character.\\
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"Her role in society or level of accomplishment doesn't matter. Even if she's a damned candidate for the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts Supreme Court]], the female always has a dual role: to function as a person, and to act as decor.\\
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"And we get ''pissed'' if she doesn't do her job."''

In general, the stereotype of the {{Ojou}} plays this trope straight (sometimes with NoblewomansLaugh included), as besides [[RichBitch being rich]] and well-educated, having beauty serves as the final elite factor above all the rest of the people to give a kind of extra status.

This trope is usually AlwaysFemale, but it is not unheard of for it to apply to boys and men, too.

''Indices: TheBeautifulTropes, BodyImageTropes, AlwaysFemale, AcceptableFeminineGoalsAndTraits[[note]]You can be good at anything, as long as looking good is top of that list[[/note]]; any others?''
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