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A character who, for some odd reason, doesn't seem to realize how attractive they are. Despite [[HelloNurse all the attention their good looks bring them]], they will either not notice it or interpret it as anything other than the fact that they're really good looking.

* Yura from ''Manga/FutariEcchi'' [[HelloNurse attracts a lot of male attention]] but she's very shy and already married so she tends not to notice the attention she gets.

* Lack of Intellect: in comedies, these characters are sometimes portrayed as simply being mindbogglingly unintelligent.

* Tawnee[[note]]Her real name is Betty. But nobody calls her that since everybody who sees her agrees she looks like a 'Tawnee' and not a 'Betty'[[/note]] is an exotic dancer for the Pink Pussycat in 'Discworld/{{Thud}}'' who believes she's so popular because she's a very good dancer, while thinking she's actually quite unattractive since nobody will ask her out. When in truth the customers couldn't care less about her dancing and the reason they don't ask her out is because she's so over the top beautiful that no man with even half a brain would ever think they would ever have a chance with her so don't even try. It takes Cherry and Angua telling her this, then proving it to her by having her destroy a pub by showing interest in one of the patrons does she realize the truth.

* Tawnee[[note]]Her real name is Betty. But nobody calls her that since everybody who sees her agrees she looks like a 'Tawnee' and not a 'Betty'[[/note]] is an exotic dancer for the Pink Pussycat in 'Discworld/{{Thud}}'' who believes she's so popular because she's a very good dancer, while thinking she's actually quite unattractive since nobody will ask her out. When in truth the customers could care less about her dancing and the reason they don't ask her out is because she's so over the top beautiful that no man with even half a brain would ever think they would ever have a chance with her so don't even try. It takes Cherry and Angua telling her this, then proving it to her by having her destroy a pub by showing interest in one of the patrons does she realize the truth.

* In ''Film/LiarLiar'', Jim Carrey's character gets a beating when he informs a woman the reason people treat her so nicely is because of her large breasts, something she apparently never considered.

* Rare male example with Cayleb in ''Literature/{{Safehold}}''. He's confident that he looks awful, despite Sharleyan's and Nahrmahn's claims to the contary. The latter even gets HeightAngst and WeightWoe when he meets Cayleb for the first time.
* Remedios the Beauty from ''Literature/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude'' is so beautiful that [[SoBeautifulItsACurse men get themselves killed over their lust for her]]. Due to her [[WomanChild childlike mentality]] she has no idea of the effect she has on men and [[HypocriticalHumor qualifies them as simple and dumb]].

* In the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "The Bubble" Liz realizes that her boyfriend, Drew, is unknowingly benefiting from his good looks. He's a doctor that doesn't know the Heimlich maneuver, can't play tennis despite having worked as a tennis coach, can order ridiculous items like roast duck soaked in Fanta at restaurants, and gets other kinds of preferential treatment that he perceives as normal, least until Liz decides to reveal to him what's really going on.
* ''Series/TheMunsters'': Marilyn Munster, as a consequence of believing her family's standards of beauty; although in Marlyn's case, she originally looked similar to the rest of the family and changed to her current appearance ''after'' Grandpa bit her.

* Country singer SammyKershaw had a song called "She Don't Know She's Beautiful." The song's subject walks down the street and goes to a party and is baffled each time with the stares she attracts. Even in the morning when she wakes up and her hair is a mess, she still doesn't understand why the singer can't take his eyes off her.

* Miranda from ''Theatre/TheTempest'' is so beautiful one character mistakes her for a goddess. She's unaware of her beauty since she, along with her father, has been exiled to a desert island since she was 3 and her father being the only contact with humans she's had.

* Played straight and later averted in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society". For most of the episode Bebe can't seem to figure out why all the boys in her class suddenly find her cool and smart and want to hang out with her. When she finds out [[BuxomIsBetter it's because of her breasts]] she tries to get them reduced so they'll take her more seriously.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has an episode in which the gang meets a town full of ugly looking people. Any deformity is seen as normal and even beautiful while beauty is viewed as the opposite. Daphne becomes infatuated with the resident known as "Ugly Jimmy" a handsome man who laments that he was born so "ugly." Daphne tries and fails to tell him of his beauty several times. Eventually, Jimmy takes a nasty tumble and ends up so disfigured that everyone in town starts calling him "Handsome Jimmy". He proudly asks Daphne what she thinks and she's at a loss when it comes to words, though she nearly vomits.

* While beautiful may be a stretch, it's sadly common in reality for kids to believe that they're ugly due to being told so by their peers despite research indicating that a child being told they're ugly by peers rarely if ever actually is unattractive.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "The Good Buck," Luanne starts a Bible study class at a swimming pool. She thinks that she's reaching out her students, all male. In reality, all of them (except Buck Strickland) just want to see her in a bikini... and enjoy the hugs she gives when you demonstrate "progress".

* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'': Racquel is abit of [[CloudCuckoolander a ditz]], so she fails to realize the effect she has on men, including when she was helping peddle Mr. Soupy buns, in the third episode. Even though her dress only showed a modest bit of leg and cleavage, it didn't stop onlookers from staring and being drawn to her like flies. Yet, [[InnocentFanserviceGirl it never occurred to her that it was her looks]] that was raking in the customers. Likewise, she never notices [[HopelessSuitor Mr. Berkens']] crush on her and only sees of him as a fatherly figure, because of his striking resemblance to her dead father.

* [[http://marvel.wikia.com/File:Doctor_Strange_Vol_2_69_001.jpg One issue of]] ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'' has the eponymous character's colleague Dane Whitman attracting a large amount of attention while doing a morning run on a cruise ship. Dane's worried it's because people can see Strange's AstralProjection accompanying him, and Strange has to point out that no, he's quite invisible, and the real explanation is that Dane's an attractively built young man running around in a T-shirt and some very short gym shorts.

* Background: the character is extremely naive or innocent.

* In a bonus chapter of ''Anime/LibraryWar'', Iku is forced into getting [[SheCleansUpNicely a makeover]] and a PimpedOutDress. She then wonders why a guy walks up and starts hitting on her, thinking he must be extremely lonely to single her out. [[UnresolvedSexualTension Doujo]] is stunned.

A character who for some reason does not seem to realize how attractive they are. Despite [[HelloNurse all the attention their good looks bring them]], they will either not notice it or interpret it as anything other than the fact that they're really good looking.

SuperTrope to IAmNotPretty where an attractive character thinks they're ugly. Contrast ProudBeauty and IndifferentBeauty, who are well aware of their appearance, though one wil flaunt it and the other doesn't really care.

* Melody from ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussyCats'' is [[BrainlessBeauty very beautiful but not very smart]]. Often she misinterprets the reason why men are interested in her.

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': In the anime, Ms. Aki honestly has no idea why she gets so many visits [[SchoolNurse to her office]], despite it being obvious it's [[BuxomIsBetter because of her]] [[GagBoobs K-Cup breasts]] [[HospitalHottie and figure]], along with the skintight miniskirt she wears. Which contradicts her portrayal in the manga, where she's perfectly aware of [[LustObject how the male students think of her]] and is shown to be [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn self-conscious because of it.]]

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': In the anime, Ms. Aki honestly has no idea why she gets so many visits [[SchoolNurse to her office]], [[BuxomIsBetter despite it being obvious it's because of her '''K-Cup''' breasts]] and a skintight miniskirt. Which contradicts her portrayal in the manga, where she's perfectly aware of [[LustObject how the male students think of her]] and is shown to be [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn self-conscious because of it.]]

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': In the anime, Ms. Aki honestly has no idea why she gets so many visits [[SchoolNurse to her office]], despite sporting '''[[GagBoobs K-Cup]]''' [[BuxomIsBetter breasts]] and a skintight miniskirt. Which contradicts her portrayal in the manga, where she's perfectly aware of [[LustObject how the male students think of her]] and is shown to be [[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn self-conscious because of it.]]

* An episode of ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' had the Tendos go to the beach where Kasumi wondered aloud why guys kept coming up and asking for her phone number. Then she was genuinely surprised when she won a beauty contest (against Ranma-chan, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi) even though she wasn't even a contestant.