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* ''{{Starship}}'': When Bug, the main character and a young bug, first meets February, a human Starship ranger who has been "wrangled" (taken captive and temporarily blinded) for the purpose of having eggs implanted in her chest, [[LoveAtFirstSight they fall for each other]]. This is at least partially owed to the combination of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Bug's impeccable English]] and the fact that [[BlindAndTheBeast February can't see that he's not actually human.]]
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* ''{{Starship}}'': When Bug, the main character and a young bug, first meets February, a human Starship ranger who has been "wrangled" (taken captive and temporarily blinded) for the purpose of having eggs implanted in her chest, [[LoveAtFirstSight they fall for each other]]. This is at least partially owed to the combination of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Bug's impeccable English]] and the fact that [[BlindAndTheBeast February can't see that he's not actually human.]]
human]].
* {{Gorgeous Gorgon}}s [[http://porcelain-requiem.deviantart.com/gallery/493414#/d38qvne can find love too]].
* {{Gorgeous Gorgon}}s [[http://porcelain-requiem.deviantart.com/gallery/493414#/d38qvne can find love too]].
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* UndergroundComics artist Carol Lay once made a comic about a woman who was orphaned and raised by an African tribe where all women have plate lips. She gets them too. Then, a group of whites find her and return her to civilization. She finds out that her parents were rich and she inherited everything. Still, she has trouble finding a man. Then she tries this trope by dating a good-looking, ambitious blind man. But then he wants to feel up her face...
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* ''{{Starship}}'': When Bug, the main character and a young bug, first meets February, a human Starship ranger who has been "wrangled" (taken captive and temporarily blinded) for the purpose of having eggs implanted in her chest, [[LoveAtFirstSight they fall for each other]]. This is at least partially owed to the combination of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Bug's impeccable English]] and the fact that [[BlindAndTheBeast February can't see that he's not actually human.]]
* ''{{Starship}}'': When Bug, the main character and a young bug, first meets February, a human Starship ranger who has been "wrangled" (taken captive and temporarily blinded) for the purpose of having eggs implanted in her chest, [[LoveAtFirstSight they fall for each other]]. This is at least partially owed to the combination of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Bug's impeccable English]] and the fact that [[BlindAndTheBeast February can't see that he's not actually human.]]
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* {{Starship}}: When Bug, the main character and a young bug, first meets February, a human Starship ranger who has been "wrangled" (taken captive and temporarily blinded) for the purpose of having eggs implanted in her chest, [[LoveAtFirstSight they fall for each other]]. This is at least partially owed to the combination of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Bug's impeccable English]] and the fact that [[BlindAndTheBeast February can't see that he's not actually human.]]
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* {{Starship}}: When Bug, the main character and a young bug, first meets February, a human Starship ranger who has been "wrangled" (taken captive and temporarily blinded) for the purpose of having eggs implanted in her chest, [[LoveAtFirstSight they fall for each other]]. This is at least partially owed to the combination of [[AliensSpeakingEnglish Bug's impeccable English]] and the fact that [[BlindAndTheBeast February can't see that he's not actually human.]]
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* A variation happens in ''FrankenFran'', when Fran operates on a painter's eyes and gives him the ability to see a wider spectrum of wavelengths. He is utterly horrified by the things he sees and flees into the woods, when he meets a fair and elfin woman-like being and falls in love. He later returns a happy man and presents Fran with a painting of his lover; although the reader can't see it, Fran's assistant can, and he is utterly ''horrified''.
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* Hanako from ''KatawaShoujo'' was left disfigured in an horrible fire. Lilly, her best friend, is blind since birth. Do your maths.
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* Hanako from ''KatawaShoujo'' was left disfigured (but not horribly so) in an horrible fire. Lilly, her best friend, is blind since birth. Do your maths.
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* ''I'll Be Seeing You'' plays this for angst--the male lead is only temporarily blind from an injury, and the horribly scarred female lead is afraid of what will happen when he recovers and sees what she looks like. [[spoiler:He ultimately decides he doesn't care.]]
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* In a way, Toph and Iroh from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
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* Victor Hugo's ''The Man Who Laughs'' has this with [[SlasherSmile Gwynplaine]] and the blind Dea.
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** Subverted with his later girlfriend (and eventual finace) Debbie Green who could see just fine and still thought he was attractive.
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A character with a freakish appearance, experiencing loneliness, happens to stumble into a blind person who [[BlindMistake doesn't realize that the freak is not quite human]]. They strike up a friendship or even romance, and the audience learns AnAesop that blind people might be better than we are because they are quicker to recognize inner beauty, of course there is also the UnfortunateImplication that you'd have to be completely blind to fall for someone so ugly, but what can you do.
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A character with a freakish appearance, experiencing loneliness, happens to stumble into a blind person who [[BlindMistake doesn't realize that the freak is not quite human]]. They strike up a friendship or even romance, and the audience learns AnAesop that blind people might be better than we are because they are quicker to recognize inner beauty, of course beauty. Of course, there is also the UnfortunateImplication that you'd have to be completely blind to fall for someone so ugly, but what can you do.
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* The ''CriminalMinds'' episode "The Big Wheel" partly focuses on the unsub's friendship with a blind boy. The unsub doesn't look particularly threatening let alone hideous or monstrous, but then again, the kid was there when the unsub killed his mother.
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* Arseface from ''{{Preacher}}'' eventually meets a girl who doesn't see reality quite as it is, as she's severely inbred. She thinks he's gorgeous, and it looks as if they're going to live happily ever after.
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* Arseface from ''{{Preacher}}'' eventually meets a girl who doesn't see reality quite as it is, as she's severely inbred.inbred and has a neurological disorder. She thinks he's gorgeous, and it looks as if they're going to live happily ever after.
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* ''ToxicAvenger'' (a mutant) has a blind girlfriend. A smokin' hot one.
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* ''ToxicAvenger'' (a mutant) has a blind girlfriend. A smokin' hot one. When she is finally given sight for the first time, she sees her hot doctor and screams in horror, but thought that her freaky mutated beau was the sexiest man alive.
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A character with a freakish appearance, experiencing loneliness, happens to stumble into a blind person who [[BlindMistake doesn't realize that the freak is not quite human]]. They strike up a friendship or even romance, and the audience learns AnAesop that blind people might be better than we are because they are quicker to recognize inner beauty.
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* ''{{Hunter X Hunter}}'' The Chimera Ant King [[spoiler:Meryem]] and the blind girl Komugi. She isn't exactly a beauty, though...
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* An episode of ''WesternAmination/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' had a subplot involving Raphael seeking refuge in the home of a blind old lady, who mistook him for a volunteer worker sent to help her. As you might imagine, it mainly focused on Raph's JerkWithAHeartOfGold status.
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* An episode of ''WesternAmination/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' had a subplot involving Raphael seeking refuge in the home of a blind old lady, who mistook him for a volunteer worker sent to help her. As you might imagine, it mainly focused on Raph's JerkWithAHeartOfGold status.
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* An episode of ''WesternAmination/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' had a subplot involving Raphael seeking refuge in the home of a blind old lady, who mistook him for a volunteer worker sent to help her. As you might imagine, it mainly focused on Raph's JerkWithAHeartOfGold status.
* An episode of ''WesternAmination/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' had a subplot involving Raphael seeking refuge in the home of a blind old lady, who mistook him for a volunteer worker sent to help her. As you might imagine, it mainly focused on Raph's JerkWithAHeartOfGold status.
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** Her case isn't entirely because of her poor eyesight. Senility plays a big part too.
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** When she does find out the truth, she brings up the potential UnfortunateImplications of this trope. Although she doesn't hate him, she's miffed that he took advantage of the fact she couldn't see.
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* The {{Vocaloid}} song ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUzNVK55xd4 The Ogre and the Maiden]]'' is about a lonely forest monster who is befriended by a blind woman. She eventually learns what he really is, but doesn't care, since she knows he's a good person inside. The music video, for its part, [[AdaptationalAttractiveness represents the ogre as a handsome human youth]], but there are a few scenes where he looks like a traditional ''oni''.
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*** {{Subverted}} hard in [[HammerHorror Curse of Frankenstein]], where the monster callously murders the blind hermit.
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*** {{Subverted}} hard in [[HammerHorror Curse of Frankenstein]], ''TheCurseOfFrankenstein'', where the monster callously murders the blind hermit.
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* Used in ''FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm's wife leaves him after his transformation into The Thing. Later, he's drowning his sorrows in a bar and meets a blind girl.
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* The song "Blind Mary" by Gnarls Barkley is ostensibly about this trope, though this troper keeps trying to find hidden subtext.
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* The song "Blind Mary" by Gnarls Barkley is ostensibly about this trope, though there's this troper keeps trying to find niggling sense of hidden subtext.
subtext somewhere...
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* Used in ''FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm's wife leaves him after his transformation into The Thing. Later, he's drowning his sorrows in a bar and meets a blind girl.
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Compare FreakyIsCool, MailerDaemon.
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* ''{{Bleach}}'', with [[spoiler:Sajin Komamura]] (monster) and Kaname Tōsen (blind)
** Interestingly enough, [[spoiler:when Tosen's Resurrecion allows him to see Komamura, he remarks that he looks uglier than he had expected. Even blind people can judge by appearances]].
* Buu of ''DragonballZ'' meets a blind kid who didn't know his appearance. After realizing he wasn't frightened, Buu figured out the problem and used his magic to heal the boy's eyes. Afterwards the boy was very grateful, and still didn't find anything unusual about Buu's appearance because he had been blind for so long.
* Turned on its head in ''DetectiveConan''; a rich blind woman states her surprise that Conan is a seven-year old, as she had previously believed him to be a teenager whose voice hadn't cracked yet. Of course, Conan really ''is'' the latter, and gets even more tense when the lady whispers to him that "I can see things others can't see".
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* This is how the Thing and Alicia Masters started their relationship in the ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' series.
* Arseface from ''{{Preacher}}'' eventually meets a girl who doesn't see reality quite as it is, as she's severely inbred. She thinks he's gorgeous, and it looks as if they're going to live happily ever after.
* A short piece in a ''Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' special has this happen with Raphael and an old blind woman; the sequence was later adapted as part of an episode of the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 cartoon]].
* In an early issue of ''{{Superman}}, The Man of Steel'', Lois Lane's sister Lucy tried to commit suicide after being blinded in an accident. She was rescued by Bizarro, but she thought it was Superman.
** This was an homage to the first appearance of Bizarro in ''Superboy'' back in the 1950s, where [[TheWoobie Bizarro's]] only friend is a blind girl who doesn't realize he's a monster.
* In the early run of ''{{Spawn}}'', the only one who recognized Al for who he used to be was his blind Grandmother.
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* ''{{Bride of Frankenstein}}'' features a sequence where the monster is befriended by a blind hermit, inspired by a similar sequence in the original novel (see below).
** Heavily parodied, even to the point of subversion, in ''YoungFrankenstein'', in which the blind hermit's hospitality proves rather painful, as he keeps unknowingly injuring his guest (by, for instance, pouring hot soup into his lap instead of into his bowl).
*** {{Subverted}} hard in [[HammerHorror Curse of Frankenstein]], where the monster callously murders the blind hermit.
* Francis Dolarhyde from the book and film ''RedDragon'' falls in love with Reba [=McClane=] partly because she's blind and can't see his harelip, although it's strongly implied that most women he knew were attracted to him already. He just thinks of his harelip as being a much greater problem then it actually is.
* The main character in ''Mask'' (the 1985 film starring Cher, not the 1994 comedy with JimCarrey) has a degenerative disease which has greatly disfigured his face, but this doesn't stop him from finding romance with a blind girl during a summer camp job.
** Naturally, the writers on ''FamilyGuy'' just ''had'' to be dicks about it, as a parody of the movie has the blind girl touching his face and getting grossed out.
* ''ToxicAvenger'' (a mutant) has a blind girlfriend. A smokin' hot one.
* ''The Face Behind The Mask'', a 40's B-Movie starring PeterLorre, centers on a Hungarian immigrant who is horribly disfigured in a fire, and turns to a life of crime since nobody will hire him. He [[HeelFaceTurn changes his ways]] after falling in love with a blind girl he runs into on the street, but [[spoiler: she is killed by his former hired goons, who are envious of his new
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* In the original ''{{Frankenstein}}'', the monster learns to speak by hiding in a house where a blind old man, his son and daughter-in-law live and listening to them talk. After a while, he approaches the old man while the others are out and asks for his help. But the rest of the family returns at this point and chases the monster away. This experience leads the monster to vow revenge on Victor Frankenstein.
* In RobertSilverberg's short story "To See the Invisible Man", a man sentenced to a year of "societal" invisibility manages a brief conversation with a blind man, who ends up rejecting him just like everybody else. (The story was also adapted as an episode of the '80s ''TwilightZone'' revival.)
* Invoked and then subverted in TimothyZahn's short story "The Giftie Gie Us," in which a war vet with a badly damaged face takes a blind woman into his home; he grows to care for her, but believes if she could ever see his face she'd be repulsed. It is then revealed that she can telepathically see through other people's eyes, has always known what he looks like, and doesn't care.
* In ''Things Not Seen'', the invisible main character befriends a blind girl.
* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/{{Feet of Clay}}'', one of the regulars at a bar for the undead is Mrs. Gammage, a nearly-blind gray-haired old lady who thinks it's the same (normal) bar she patronized decades ago. She thinks the other monsters are just regulars and is friendly to all of them, and they take care of her in kind; anyone who bothers her won't live long enough to regret it.
* Victor Hugo's ''The Man Who Laughs'' has this with [[SlasherSmile Gwynplaine]] and the blind Dea.
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* {{ALF}} befriends a blind woman in one episode of that series.
* The ''DarkAngel'' episode "Hello, Goodbye" deals with a friendship between [[HalfHumanHybrid genetically engineered dog-man]] Joshua and a blind girl named Annie. She spends much of the episode talking about wanting to "see" him by feeling his face, something that he's understandably reluctant to do. He ends up having one of his more human-looking friends "stand in" for him. He eventually lets her "see" his real face and she accepts him even though he's obviously not all human. [[spoiler: Later, the {{MIB}} from the AncientConspiracy learns of their friendship and snaps her neck to frame the [[HalfHumanHybrid only ones]] that the public knows has SuperStrength for the murder]].
* The ''{{MST3K}}'' episode ''The Brute Man'' had the large-faced Rondo Hatton befriending a blind girl. When the police discover their relationship, they talk her into luring him into a trap (which she feels bad about doing, even if he ''is'' a crazed killer.)
* In a late episode of the sitcom ''{{Taxi}}'', Louie [=DePalma=] falls in love with a blind girl. While she undergoes an operation to restore her sight, he frets about whether she will reject him when she sees him. One thing he does while stewing is pluck out some of his eyebrow hairs. When the woman finally sees him, he's exactly like she expected, except that she pictured him having more hair in his eyebrows..
* Subverted on ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} 30 Rock]]'': Kenneth falls for a blind woman who rejects him after feeling his face.
* Inverted, or subverted, or perverted, or...''something'' on ''{{Becker}}'', when Jake (a blind black man) ends up going out with a blind white woman, but it ends in tears when he mentions his skin colour offhand several weeks later and she turns out to be a racist.
* Somewhat similarly twisted on ''[[ChapellesShow Chapelle's Show]]'' with Clayton Bigsby, the blind white supremacist who doesn't realize he's black. His entire KKK chapter serves as the Magoo to his Monster, because he is hooded in all public appearances.
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* The song "Blind Mary" by Gnarls Barkley is ostensibly about this trope, though this troper keeps trying to find hidden subtext.
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* Hanako from ''KatawaShoujo'' was left disfigured in an horrible fire. Lilly, her best friend, is blind since birth. Do your maths.
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* While the comically-nearsighted Mr. Magoo was formerly the TropeNamer, [[DeadUnicornTrope none of his cartoons ever actually employed this trope]].
* Hudson befriends Jeffrey Robbins, a blind veteran, in ''{{Gargoyles}}''. Like every character in the series, he ends up becoming a recurring character. [[spoiler: Though in a twist, Robbins reveals that he suspected Hudson wasn't human all along.]]
* Something similar happens to Beast in the '90s ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon. Oddly, Hank thinks Carly is unaware he's a mutant, even though she previously made a joke about his fur.
* In an episode of ''[[AaahhRealMonsters Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]]'', "Monster Blues", Ickis befriends a blind old man and ends up saving his life.
* Subverted in ''{{Futurama}}'', in which the blind guy was one of the kids who picked on Leela for only having one eye. "My eyes may not work, but at least I have two of them!"
* Tummi [[GummiBears Gummi]] briefly befriended a blind lady.
* in a way, Toph and Iroh from AvatarTheLastAirbender
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* Joseph Merrick, better known as The Elephant Man, expressed on several occasions the desire to go to a home for the blind and pick up chicks.
* If he didn't make it up, HowardStern tried to pick up a blind girl. She felt up to his face, and decided to decline.
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