History Main / IWasQuiteALooker

** Buckin is a short and ugly crone, but if [[spoiler:her clone Stussy]] is any indication, she looked much prettier as a young woman.

* In the ''Literature/TalesFromTheWyrdMuseum'' trilogy, Miss Veronica (or Verdandi) is said to have once been the most beautiful of the three [[Really700YearsOld now ancient and decrepit]] sisters who make up [[TheWeirdSisters the Nornir]].

* In the ''Literature/TalesFromTheWyrdMuseum'', Miss Veronica (or Verdandi) is said to have once been the most beautiful of the three [[Really700YearsOld now ancient and decrepit]] sisters who make up [[TheWeirdSisters the Nornir]].

* Old Bruce Wayne informs Terry [=McGinnis=] of this status in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''

** There's also Donna. Who with a heavy dose of beauty enhancements, hides the fact that she aged ''[[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/cleveland/images/9/98/Baredonna.png/revision/latest?cb=20111205034813 badly]]'' Invoked in one episode where the family attends the San Diego Comic-Con, and it's revealed that Donna once starred in a Blaxploitation movie called "Hot-Coco Bang-Bang". Rollo is visibly disturbed just how badly his mother has aged since the movie was made.

* Granny, of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, is shown to have been a [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110708155435/looneytunesshow/images/thumb/c/c9/Snapshot20110708011211.png/743px-Snapshot20110708011211.png very sexy]] ActionGirl, whom Daffy initially mistook for her ''granddaughter'', back in World War II in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. Also in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterAndTweetyMysteries''. Keeping that cat from eating that bird all the time must have really taken its toll on her.

** Granny Smith was [[http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/029/0/b/young_granny_smith_by_joeyh3-d4o03d5.png very]] [[http://media.pinkiedb.com/photos/Granny%20Smith/Granny%20Smith%20004.jpg pretty]] back in her day.

** Marge's mother Jaqueline was a dead-ringer for her daughter back in her youth, as shown with an old photo of her being arrested for indecent exposure at the beach (she was wearing an OldTimeyBathingSuit, complete with sleeves). Grampa was very impressed.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The List" has the ghost of Useful notes/AbrahamLincoln take Kyle, who was ranked last on a list made by the girls ranking the boys' looks, to the home of an older woman named Nancy Pinkerton. Lincoln says that Nancy was very beautiful when she was younger (we never actually see what she used to look like however), and because she was handed everything and given insincere praise due to her looks, she [[BeautyBreedsLaziness never developed character]]. And now that her looks have faded, she is left with nothing of substance.

* In ''VideoGame/PotinPermit'', Mayor Myer's portrait on the 1st floor (2nd floor in American English) of the town hall shows him as a dashing young man with brown hair and a short mustache.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': While in the Land of the Dead, Héctor (at least for a skeleton) is still attractive, but in life he had a cute, gentle, dreamy but charming look. His wife Imelda was also very attractive in life.

Compare GloryDays, TheChainsOfCommanding (for those who lose their looks due to stressful jobs), and WhiteDwarfStarlet (for old ladies who were performers in their youth). Contrast SheIsAllGrownUp; SilverFox; ReallySevenHundredYearsOld; and IWasQuiteAFashionVictim.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' has an elderly Gerudo character named Muava who says she was quite a boy magnet when she was young. But she spent much of her younger years looking for the Lover's Pond where it is said people can find their true love; she never found it, and she ended up too old for the guys to find a lover.
** Impa makes an appearance in the prequel ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'', which takes place a century before ''[=BotW=]''. As such, she appears as a young woman, [[IdenticalGrandson resembling her granddaughter Paya]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', Link is (benevolently) haunted by a terrifying apparition of a rotted skeleton in decaying armor who has taken it upon himself to train him in swordplay. While the game itself never shows who he once was, both ''Literature/HyruleHistoria'' and [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016 the manga]] reveal he had been the [[MrFanservice legendarily handsome]] [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hero of Time]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/PotinPermit'', Mayor Myer's portrait on the 2nd floor of the town hall shows him as a dashing young man with brown hair and a short mustache.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', the poster for the grand opening of Darcy's reveals that the old man used to have a full head of hair and a handsome mustache 30 years ago.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Shang Tsung [[http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/feature-Mortal-Kombat-Shang-Tsung.jpg as an old man]], [[http://images.wikia.com/villains/images/6/6c/Shang_tsung_mk2011.jpg and with his youth restored.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Mother Gothel begins the film as an ugly crone, but Rapunzel's magical hair [[VainSorceress restores her looks]] showing [[EvilIsSexy she certainly counts]] for this trope.

Once upon a time they were attractive, ''very'' attractive. This will be revealed to the rest of the cast if they ever run into a FountainOfYouth, or via old photographs or perhaps just to us the viewers in a {{Flashback}}. Becomes RealitySubtext if this is true for the actor as well (bonus points if the old photos are actual photos of the actor). For instance, Creator/DianaRigg played CoolOldLady Olenna Tyrell on ''Series/GameOfThrones'', who often spoke of her former beauty, and Rigg herself was a sex symbol in the '60s.

Once upon a time they were attractive, ''very'' attractive. This will be revealed to the rest of the cast if they ever run into a FountainOfYouth, or via old photographs or perhaps just to us the viewers in a {{Flashback}}. Bonus points if this is true for the actor as well, such as Creator/DianaRigg, who played CoolOldLady Olenna Tyrell on ''Series/GameOfThrones'' but was also a sex symbol in the '60s due to her FemmeFatale roles.

** [=BoJack's=] mother Beatrice was beautiful in her youth as a debutante, and she’s bitter about how she looks now, which she uses to guilt her son due to believing having him "ruined her". "You know, I was ''beautiful'' before I got pregnant".

* Ditto for Fabulous Moolah. Although there isn't currently any footage available of Moolah in the very early days of her wrestling career, there are a number of anecdotes from her peers at the time about how attractive she was.

** In a similar vein, you have Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, who before adopting the shaved, goateed, toughest-sumbitch-in-the-room persona, had a long mane of blonde hair and wrestled as "Stunning" Steve Austin in a pretty-boy heel gimmick.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': "[[SerialKiller That Yellow Bastard]]" was once a rich, handsome man until he suffered a [[CripplingCastration much-deserved assault on his groin]]. His attempts to undo that turned him into a foul-smelling, severely jaundiced {{Gonk}} who is now as monstrous on the outside as he always was on the inside.