History Main / EvilMakesYouUgly

** In his first appearance, the {{sociopath}}ic [[CorruptCorporateExecutive industrialist]] [[BigBad Derek Powers]] is revealed to have produced a deadly biochemical weapon to sell overseas. He ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard getting exposed to some of the poison gas himself]]. After receiving emergency radiation therapy, he turns into Blight, a [[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive]] supervillain who looks like a glowing green skeleton. Now his appearance really matches his inner self.

* This has happened to a few of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's enemies:
** Sin, the daughter of Cap's ArchEnemy the ComicBook/RedSkull, received horrible facial scars in an explosion when she tried to put her father's mind into Steve Rogers' body. She is now her father's daughter in every way. [[spoiler: At least until Kobik repairs her face.]]
** The Skull himself literally took on his infamous moniker after getting hit with his [[HoistByHisOwnPetard own Dust of Death]] after one skirmish with the Captain[[note]]or in this case, The Captain ''and'' Captain America, as Steve was currently operating under the identity of "The Captain" and John Walker was Cap at the time of the incident[[/note]].
** Early in the current (and present) Baron Zemo's career, during a fight between him and Cap, he fell into a cauldron of a caustic chemical called Adhesive-X and was left for dead by the hero. Zemo actually survived, due to the protective properties of his costume, but because he had lost his mask previously in the fight, his face was hideously marred, giving it the appearance of molten wax. (Of course, Zemo has changed from outright villain to KnightTemplar now, but evil still made him ugly.)
* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers]]''. Loki is withered, nearly toothless, and looks decades older than his biological mother. Then the evidence starts stacking that, in this [[AlternateContinuity continuity]] at least, Odin intentionally warped and molded Loki into both ugliness and evil so that arrogant, brutish Thor would look better by comparison.
* Victor Von Doom's pride and arrogance pushed him into an ill-considered experiment that backfired, permanently scarring his face. Though it could also be argued that his less handsome appearance [[BeautyEqualsGoodness presaged his fall into villainy]] instead. Tellingly, no matter how many times he fixes his face either through supernatural means or by switching bodies, he always ends up with facial scars again. Scott Lang once claimed that Doom does it to himself so he can pretend that he is alienated from humanity because of his physical scar tissue when it's really the scar tissue of his soul that repulses people.
* ComicBook/IronMan's enemy [[DatingCatwoman and former lover]] Whitney Frost, aka Madame Masque, is a terrorist leader with an origin similar to Doom's; a plane crash horribly disfigured her face, forcing her to wear a golden mask (provided by the gold-obsessed criminal leader Mordecai Midas) to conceal it. The scars have since been healed via surgery, but she still wears the mask to continue using her ''nom de plume''.
* When Calvin Zabo, Marvel's version of Mister Hyde, transforms into his villain identity, his face twists and convulses into a horrid, angry scowl that matches his uncontrollable temper.
* ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'': It's debatable if Joker could be considered ugly most of the time. What's not debatable is that this time around, he is ugly, thanks to wearing his face-skin like a mask!
* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'':
** Happened to Victor Van Damme early on, transforming from a surly pretty boy into a metallic Satyr.
** This is also the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Reed Richards, when it's revealed he has been behind everything in the ''[[{{Crossover}} Ultimate Doomsday Trilogy]]''. Crosses over into FridgeBrilliance when you realize that he has in effect become Ultimate Doctor Doom]].
* Recurring ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' enemy Bizarro is an odd example. Bizarro is usually portrayed as a failed copy or clone of Superman who's physical appearance looks like a chalky-faced ghoul with sunken eyes and ragged hair. In some versions, he even starts out looking like the normal Superman but begins to degenerate physically once his mind begins to decay and his behavior becomes irrational and unpredictable. Bizarro isn't "evil" in the traditional sense, but his mind is so twisted that he ends up causing a ton of damage and death.
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' sees the army of {{Evil Counterpart}}s of Batman, the Dark Knights, suffer from this from the Devastator looking like Doomsday, the Merciless looking like an old man, to the Batman Who Laughs being subjected to DependingOnTheArtist to the extend that he can look far more inhuman than his origin (a Batman infected with the Joker's blood) should suggest (with a seemingly noseless face, a wider-than-humanly possible SlasherSmile, ScaryTeeth, and OverlyLongTongue).

* Tom Riddle from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' was a handsome student, but by the time he is reborn, he is bald, has pale white skin, bloodshot eyes, and slits for nostrils. In a Pensive memory, Dumbledore has of him entering his office to ask to be the Defense of Dark Arts professor after he began dabbling in Dark Arts but before he gained power, Harry notes that he had already lost his good looks by then and was beginning to resemble the pale, snake-like creature he would fully become later on. Even many years before that when Tom Riddle was still pretty handsome, he was stated to have already begun to look a little pale by the time he took a job in a store to get hold of an ancient artifact. This is justified as each time he mutilated his soul to create a horcrux, he became 'less human'.

* In ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'', most of TheMafia leaders are very ugly. Clair is somewhat an exception, as he is a {{Bishounen}}, but [[IllBoy a very sickly-looking one]].

** An extreme example would be Lucius the Eternal, who was once the [[PrettyBoy prettiest]] of all SpaceMarines and now looks like [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:Luciusart.jpg this]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' episode "Universe of Evil" portrays an evil Justice League from a ParallelUniverse. For the most part, [[http://superfriends.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Enemies they look just like their normal selves, but with different costumes]]. {{Superman}} gets some weird eye makeup. Franchise/WonderWoman particularly stands out, as she has the exact same costume as her normal self, but just seems really hagged-out. Either this trope is at work, or "our" Wonder Woman relies heavily on talented makeup artists for her good looks.

* Recurring ''{{Superman}}'' enemy Bizarro is an odd example. Bizarro is usually portrayed as a failed copy or clone of Superman who's physical appearance looks like a chalky-faced ghoul with sunken eyes and ragged hair. In some versions, he even starts out looking like the normal Superman but begins to degenerate physically once his mind begins to decay and his behavior becomes irrational and unpredictable. Bizarro isn't "evil" in the traditional sense, but his mind is so twisted that he ends up causing a ton of damage and death.

** Darth Maul technically averts it in ''[[Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace The Phantom Menace]]'', as while he has a very menacing appearance, he's not deformed in any way (his species is naturally horned and his Sith markings are just tattoos). By ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', however, he's been forced to replace his lower body with a pair of mechanical legs after Obi-Wan sliced him in half and left him for dead, qualifying him for this trope.

* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Voldemort practically turns into a snake from his dealings with the darker sides of magic. In the {{Prequel}} series, ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', BigBad Grindlewald was very handsome in his youth but in middle age is gaunt and prematurely aged. In contrast, middle-aged Dumbledore (who's TheHero but not TheProtagonist) is very handsome given that he's played by Creator/JudeLaw. Although in Grindelwald’s case, this is likely to change due to a change in actor between the second and third films.

* Near the end of ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', one of the {{Mooks}} drinks a concoction that gives him incredible size and strength...and glowing red skin with horrible acne.

** Palpatine is severely disfigured by having his own power rebounded on him by Mace Windu. He displays little concern for his own disfigurement; in fact, he uses it as part of his overall gambit, first using it to convince Anakin to side with him, and later using it to garner overwhelming support for his seizing dictatorship and turning the Republic into the Empire.

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* Discussed and averted in the ''Literature/{{Raffles}} stories: the narrator, Bunny, notes that neither his life of crime nor a stint in prison has robbed him of his youthful good looks and his innocent-looking face.

* EvilMakesYouUgly: [[spoiler:''Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' gives us Steven, who uses Missingno to bring his Charizard back from the dead. He then undergoes a shocking transformation:]]

* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Voldemort practically turns into a snake from his dealings with the darker sides of magic. In the {{Prequel}} series, ''Film/FantasticBeasts'', BigBad Grindlewald was very handsome in his youth but in middle age is gaunt and ugly. In contrast, middle-aged Dumbledore (who's TheHero but not TheProtagonist) is very handsome given that he's played by Creator/JudeLaw.

** Gothel herself is also an example--while she normally looks like an attractive middle-aged woman, she's [[Really700YearsOld actually much older]], with [[https://tangled-2010-movie.fandom.com/wiki/Mother_Gothel?file=Mother_Gothel_rapidly_aging.jpg haggard, skeletal appearance]] to match; she uses Rapunzel's [[HealingHands magical healing hair]] to keep herself looking perpetually young. [[spoiler: After Rapunzel [[HeroicSacrifice cuts off the hair to save Flynn's life]], Gothel [[RapidAging ages into dust]] as she tumbles out the tower window to her death.]]

* When Klogg stole Hoborg's crown in ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'', he turned from a normal-looking klay-person to a bug-eyed, fanged, sharp-cheeked monstrosity. [[spoiler:The Bad Ending has the same happen to Klaymen.]]

* ComicBook/IronMan's enemy [[DatingCatwoman and former lover]] Whitney Frost, aka Madame Masque is a terrorist leader with an origin similar to Doom's; a plane crash horribly disfigured her face, forcing her to wear a golden mask (provided by the gold-obsessed criminal leader Mordecai Midas) to conceal it. The scars have since been healed via surgery, but she still wears the mask to continue using her ''nom de plume''.

Compare RedRightHand, TheCorruption, EvilCostumeSwitch, PunishedWithUgly, EvilMakesYouMonstrous, PowerUpgradingDeformation and WhatMeasureIsANonCute.

* ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'' does this to many individuals of evil heart. As the BigBad, Baron Dark, had wicked intentions, his struggle for the Lightstar Crystal had converted him into a skeletal monster with the power to transform other of evil heart into living skeletons.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Commander Shepard's scars (and, eventually, [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes]]) will glow red according to how Renegade the Commander is, but recede if she's Paragon, explained in-universe as the cosmetic surgery used when resurrecting her responding badly to stress. Go far enough, and eventually they'll ''glow in the dark''. You can remove the scars altogether by building a specific ship upgrade.

* ''Manga/CatEyedBoy'' features the Demon Child, a young man who was born deformed and ugly with a wicked personality to match. When he was 22, he transplanted his mind into the body of his deceased but handsome father, but as his true nature slipped out he slowly made his new body as ugly as he was i his original body.