History Main / BlindAndTheBeast

* ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'': Chapter 33 sees Leonardo stranded in an alleyway with a gashed leg. He's helped by a blind man, who introduces himself as [[spoiler:former police captain George Stacy. Subverted when he reveals near the end of the chapter that he knew almost from the start that Leo wasn't human; he didn't say anything because Leo saved Gwen Stacy from being mugged a few days before.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' rather [[BlackComedy dickishly]] parodies ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'' by having Diana overcome with a combination of disgust and confusion when she finally feels Rocky's face.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' rather [[BlackComedy dickishly]] parodies ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'' by having Diana overcome with disgust when she finally feels Rocky's face.

-->'''Diana:''' Oh, God! Oh- oh God, what is this? What- ''[stammers]'' what is all this? Am- am I touching the outside of a house? Oh, God! You're a monster!\\

'''Diana:''' Yeah, but Rocky, there's a limit! Oh! Oh- what is this now? Does your face have a pelvis?!

-->'''Diana:''' Oh, God! Oh- oh God, what is this? What- what is all this? Am- am I touching the outside of a house? Oh, God! You're a monster!\\

'''Diana:''' Yeah, but Rocky, there's a limit! Oh! Oh- what is this now? Does your face have a pelvis?

* ''Film/Deadpool'' has Blind Al, the titular character's friend and landlady. She knows he's disfigured but doesn't care (and likely wouldn't even if she could see).

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' rather [[BlackComedy dickishly]] parodies ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'' [[note]]the 1985 film starring Cher, not the 1994 comedy with Creator/JimCarrey[[/note]]. Rocky Dennis, A man with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, which has greatly disfigured his face, finds romance with Diana, a blind girl during a summer camp job. She touches his face and promptly gets grossed out.

* Subverted in ''Film/CastleFreak1995'': Rebecca, being blind, cannot see the [[AntagonistTitle titular]] monster, Giorgio's hideous appearance when they meet face to face, and mistakes him for her mother, prattling on about her feelings to him as he waits on her attentively. Given his sympathetic backstory this could be an opportunity for a [[HeelFaceTurn face turn]], but instead of a rapport built between them Rebecca is rightfully repulsed by Giorgio's true nature, as ugly on the inside as the outside, as he grabs her up and carries her off to his dungeon to [[AttemptedRape rape her]].

* Creator/RoaldDahl fell in love with the nurse who treated him after he was temporarily blinded during an emergency landing in World War II. Upon regaining his sight, he saw that she was quite attractive, but still decided he no longer loved her.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': [[spoiler:Sajin Komamura]] (monster) and Kaname Tōsen (blind). The interesting twist is that [[spoiler:Komamura]] is a good guy while Tōsen pulls a FaceHeelTurn. [[spoiler: When Tōsen regains his sight, he calls Komamura ugly. As he dies, he apologizes for saying that.]]

* ''Film/TheFaceBehindTheMask'', a '40s B-Movie starring Creator/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 life]]. Needless to say, [[TakingYouWithMe he doesn't take this well.]]

* In ''Literature/RedDragon'', Francis Dolarhyde falls in love with Reba [=McClane=] partly because she's blind and can't see his cleft lip, although it's strongly implied that most women he knew were attracted to him already - he's in ''very'' good shape. He just thinks of his cleft lip as being a much greater problem than it actually is, because, well, he's [[SerialKiller not a very emotionally well man]]. There's a moment of irony when she says she could tell he had some mouth abnormalities by the way he talked, avoiding certain sounds, but she of course didn't mind.

* The ''Series/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. In the next episode, "Dawg Day Afternoon", he eventually lets her "see" his real face after they're both chased into the sewers by local youths who want to hurt him, and she accepts him even though he's obviously not all human. She does bring up the potential UnfortunateImplications of this trope; although she doesn't hate Joshua, she's miffed that he took advantage of the fact she couldn't see. [[spoiler: Later, the [[TheMenInBlack Man In Black]] from the AncientConspiracy learns of their friendship and snaps her neck to frame the only people that the public knows have SuperStrength for the murder]].

** Played straight (with a twist) in "Stench and Stenchibility". Zoidberg is unable to find a woman who can stand his bodily odor, until he meets Marianne, a flower girl who has no sense of smell. However, Zoidberg [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy loves Marianne so much]] he performs an operation that will finally let her smell even though she'll most likely be repulsed by him. [[spoiler: She's not. Since she never learned the difference between a good smell and a bad smell, she grows to love Zoidberg's stench because she loves him so much.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' rather [[BlackComedy dickishly]] parodies ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'' [[note]]the 1985 film starring Cher, not the 1994 comedy with Creator/JimCarrey[[/note]]. A man with degenerative disease, which has greatly disfigured his face, finds romance with a blind girl during a summer camp job. She touches his face and promptly gets grossed out.

* The protagonist Mizu of ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'' is raised as an orphan by a [[BlindWeaponmaster blind swordmaker]] who is unaware that his charge is actually a half-white [[SweetPollyOliver girl]] who is [[HalfBreedDiscrimination regarded as monstrous]] by everyone else in Japan. At one point Mizu feels guilty and blurts out the truth about her mixed blood, but he refuses to disown her. When Mizu leaves on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge she tries to confess the second part, but the swordmaker makes it clear that he's not interested in hearing it. In fact it's highly likely he's known all along, given his emphasis on leaving his care as a "man".

* The protagonist Mizu of ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'' is raised as an orphan by a [[BlindWeaponmaster blind swordmaker]] who is unaware that his charge is actually a half-white [[SweetPollyOliver girl]] who is [[HalfBreedDiscrimination regarded as monstrous]] by everyone else in Japan. At one point Mizu feels guilty and blurts out the truth about her mixed blood, but he refuses to disown her. When Mizu leaves on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge she tries to confess the second part, but the swordmaker makes it clear that he's not interested.

* Creator/BruceCoville's anthology ''A Glory of Unicorns'' has the short story "The Ugly Unicorn", in which a blind princess befriends what she thinks is a beautiful Poh unicorn... who is too ashamed to admit to her that he is really an ugly Liu-Mu unicorn.

* Creator/BruceCoville's anthology ''A Glory of Unicorns'' has the short story "The Ugly Unicorn", in which a blind princess befriends what she thinks is the beautiful Poh unicorn... who is too ashamed to admit to her that he is really the ugly Liu-Mu unicorn.

* Creator/BruceCoville's anthology ''A Glory of Unicorns'' has the short story "The Ugly Unicorn", in which a blind princess befriends what she thinks is the beautiful Poh unicorn... who is too ashamed to admit that he is really the ugly Liu-Mu unicorn.

* The protagonist Mizu of ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'' is raised as an orphan by a [[BlindWeaponmaster blind swordmaker]] who is unaware that his charge is actually a half-white [[SweetPollyOliver girl]] who is [[HalfBreedDiscrimination regarded as monstrous]] by everyone else in Japan. At one point Mizu feels guilty and blurts out the truth about her mixed blood, but he refuses to disown her. When Mizu leaves on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge she tries to confess the second part, but the Swordsmaker makes it clear that he's not interested.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'': Heavily downplayed, but a blind swordsmith appears to have been the first unrelated person in Sakoku-era Japan to ''not'' shun or mistreat the visibly mixed-race orphan Mizu.

* The main character of ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'' (1985) 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.

* The title hero of ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' (a mutant) has a blind girlfriend. A smokin' hot one. When she is finally given sight for the first time in [[Film/TheToxicAvengerPartIIITheLastTemptationOfToxie the third film]], she sees her hot doctor and screams in horror, but thought that her freaky mutated beau was the sexiest man alive.

* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'': Heavily parodies ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'', even unto the point of subversion. The blind hermit's hospitality to the monster proves rather painful, as he keeps unknowingly injuring his guest (by, for instance, pouring hot soup into his lap instead of into his bowl).

* ''Series/{{Beauty and the Beast|1987}}'': Catherine has her eyes covered with bandages when she first meets Vincent, and has fallen in love with him by the time her eyesight has been restored.
* Subverted on ''Series/{{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.

* The ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode ''Film/TheBruteMan'' had a killer named The Creeper (Creator/RondoHatton) 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.)

* On ''Series/PennyDreadful'', the Creature takes temporary employment at a wax museum, where he's treated kindly by the owner's blind daughter. [[spoiler: Cruelly subverted when she reveals that she's fully in cahoots with her parents' scheme to imprison the Creature as a live freak-show addition to their museum, and that she finds his ''personality'' tiresome.]]

* On the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", the crew once had to transport an alien called a Medusan, who was so hideous you would [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go mad if you saw it]]. The Medusan's human companion, however, is a blind telepath, who describes his mind as the most beautiful thing she had ever experienced.
* In a late episode of the sitcom ''Series/{{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..
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "To See the Invisible Man", the only person to be kind to Mitchell Chaplin during his punishment is a blind man named Bennett Gershe who cannot see the implant telling others to ignore him. Subverted when Gershe is then told of Mitchell's status, after which he angrily curses Mitchell and leaves him.
* Subverted on an episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace'' in which Will, who is a good-looking man, is set up on a date with a blind man. (Leads to a sort of WhosOnFirst incident when he realizes it's a ''literal'' blind date.) The man asks to feel Will's face so he can "see" him, which Will permits, and then the guy complains that just because he's blind, people always set him up with ugly dates. It is then revealed to be a prank, engineered by Jack for his new reality show "Pink'd" ("[[TheMockbuster a non-derivative version of]] ''Series/PunkD''"), playing on Will's insecure vanity for humor.

* The ''Creator/BruceCoville's Book of...'' series has a short story narrated by a basilisk long ago left to guard a treasure-filled tomb. Some robbers force [[DisabilityImmunity a blind boy]] into the tomb to steal stuff for them, and the basilisk strikes up a conversation with him. The story ends with the boy hiding the basilisk in his clothes, and taking him out when the robbers demand to see what he found in the tomb.

* In ''Literature/RedDragon'', Francis Dolarhyde falls in love with Reba [=McClane=] partly because she's [[DisabledLoveInterest blind]] and can't see his cleft lip, although it's strongly implied that most women he knew were attracted to him already - he's in ''very'' good shape. He just thinks of his cleft lip as being a much greater problem then it actually is, because, well, he's [[SerialKiller not a very emotionally well man]]. There's a moment of irony when she says she could tell he had some mouth abnormalities by the way he talked, avoiding certain sounds, but she of course didn't mind.

* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} song ''[[https://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''.

* Subverted in ''{{WesternAnimation/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!"

* In ''[[VisualNovel/MazMThePhantomOfTheOpera The Phantom of the Opera]]'', the titular Phantom thought that this was going to be the case with [[spoiler:his blind Turkish maid, Melek,]] since she can't see his corpselike deformities and he expected her to be impressed by his talents and achievements. Defied because, [[spoiler:as she was his interpreter for a time, she knew about the instruments of war and torture he created for the sultan]] and she hated him without even knowing what he looked like. The Phantom, being desensitized to his own atrocities, is baffled and enraged by this.