History Main / PunishedWithUgly

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' episode "The Overthrow of Merklynn", Darkstorm does this to Virulina, after she, Lexor and Reekon make it known that they are not happy with his rule. Using the magic he has stolen from Merklynn, he turns her into an aged crone, then conjures up a mirror so that she can see what she now looks like.

* ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'': When the Third Parasite accuses Susan of trying to seduce her husband, she pours a bottle of bleach onto Susan's face to make sure her husband won't be tempted by her again.

* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', as in [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade the tabletop game]], the Nosferatu sometimes inflict their LooksLikeOrlok variety of undeath on vain beauties to take them down a notch. One Nosferatu, Imalia, is a former [[FashionModel top supermodel]]... who will pay handsomely to have her UnknownRival successor's life ruined, suggesting that the lesson in humility didn't stick. Justified, in that she's a fledgling, a newly turned vampire.

* In ''Film/FriendRequest'', Laura, one of the prettiest and most popular girls on her college campus, takes pity on an unpopular girl, Marina (who, in addition to being considered strange and creepy, has Trichotillomania and poor grooming habits) and accepts her friend request. After Laura unfriends Marina because of her stalking and harassment, Marina [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]], and her spirit haunts and torments Laura in revenhe by killing her loved ones and driving away her friends, leaving Laura alone and isolated (as Marina herself once was). The stress of the ordeal has the added side effect of causing Laura to lose her looks, as her face becomes increasingly gaunt, her hair unkempt, and she acquires pale skin and bags under her eyes. At the end of the film, a TimeSkip shows that, in addition to having lost all her friends and become a social outcast, Laura [[LooksLikeCesare now has colorless skin, eyes ringed by dark circles, and her once-blonde hair has become dark, sparse, and stringy]]: in essence she has become Marina [[spoiler: (perhaps literally, as a quick flash of [[EyeColorChange Laura's eyes turning bright green]] hints that Marina has [[DemonicPossession taken over her body)]]]].

* A downplayed example occurs in ''Film/FriendRequest''. Laura, one of the prettiest and most popular girls on her college campus, takes pity on an unpopular girl, Marina (who, in addition to being considered strange and creepy, has Trichotillomania and poor grooming habits) and accepts her friend request. After Laura unfriends Marina because of her stalking and harassment, Marina [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]], and her spirit haunts and torments Laura and her friends in revenge. Marina seeks to punish Laura in particular by killing her loved ones and driving away her friends, leaving Laura alone and isolated (as Marina herself once was). However, the stress of the ordeal has the added side effect of causing Laura to lose her looks: her face becomes increasingly gaunt, her hair unkempt, and she acquires pale skin and bags under her eyes. At the end of the film, a TimeSkip shows that, in addition to having lost all her friends and become a complete outcast, Laura [[LooksLikeCesare now has colorless skin, eyes ringed by dark circles, and her once-blonde hair has become dark, sparse, and stringy]]: in essence she has become Marina [[spoiler: (perhaps literally, as a quick flash of [[EyeColorChange Laura's eyes turning bright green]] hints that Marina has [[DemonicPossession taken over her body)]]]].

* In ''Film/FriendRequest'', Laura is the prettiest and most popular girl in her college who takes pity on an unpopular girl, Marina, and accepts her friend request. After Laura unfriends Marina because of her stalking and harassment, Marina kills herself, and her spirit haunts and torments Laura and her friends in revenge. Marina seeks to particularly punish Laura by destroying her life and popularity, with one of the methods being the destruction of Laura's beauty. Laura discovers that her face has began to deteriorate and become increasingly gaunt, and soon sees that she has lost some of her good looks and is no longer the prettiest girl in the school. As time progresses while Marina torments Laura and her friends, Laura's face continues to gradually deteriorate and she continues to lose her good looks, and eventually she is no longer beautiful. Laura manages to stop Marina, but as seen in the last scene,[[FateWorseThanDeath this results in Laura being terribly and permanently disfigured. Her face is ruined, she will never be beautiful again, she has become the ugliest girl in the school, and she has lost all her popularity and become an outcast.]]

* In ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'', the stunningly beautiful Alex is permanently disfigured after a sadistic pimp beats her face in to destroy her physical beauty. [[spoiler:Alex's face is ruined by the beating, and she will likely never be beautiful again.]]

* The princess in ''Series/TheSingingRingingTree'' gets cursed with this as a manifestation of her inner nature and becomes beautiful again following her redemption. (Due to ''very'' limited production values and changes in beauty standards since TheFifties, the cursed princess comes across to modern audiences more as a HollywoodHomely UnkemptBeauty than "ugly" per se.)

* In ''Friend Request'', Laura is the prettiest and most popular girl in her college who takes pity on an unpopular girl, Marina, and accepts her friend request. After Laura unfriends Marina because of her stalking and harassment, Marina kills herself, and her spirit haunts and torments Laura and her friends in revenge. Marina seeks to particularly punish Laura by destroying her life and popularity, with one of the methods being the destruction of Laura's beauty. Laura discovers that her face has began to deteriorate and become increasingly gaunt, and soon sees that she has lost some of her good looks and is no longer the prettiest girl in the school. As time progresses while Marina torments Laura and her friends, Laura's face continues to gradually deteriorate and she continues to lose her good looks, and eventually she is no longer beautiful. Laura manages to stop Marina, but as seen in the last scene,[[FateWorseThanDeath this results in Laura being terribly and permanently disfigured. Her face is ruined, she will never be beautiful again, she has become the ugliest girl in the school, and she has lost all her popularity and become an outcast.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Flirting With Disaster", Francine ends up working alongside Stan at the CIA as a secretary, and Stan's coworker Lorraine who's [[GreenEyedMonster jealous of all]] [[MsFanservice the attention she gets]] disfigures her in an acid attack.

* Inverted at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Best Lazy Day Ever". Perry steals the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Ugly-inator, which the latter had used to turn people ugly, and he fuels it with an actor's picture instead, reversing its effects and turning everyone beautiful again. In the end, he fires the weapon at Doofenshmirtz's hot air balloon, turning it into a cute heart-shaped one, much to Doof's chagrin.

* In the first book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' one of Olafs henchmen grabs Violet by her face and says she better not do anything to anger Olaf or he will ruin her pretty face as punishment.

* The princess in ''Series/TheSingingRingingTree'' gets cursed with this as a manifestation of her inner nature, and becomes beautiful again following her redemption. (Due to ''very'' limited production values and changes in beauty standards since TheFifties, the cursed princess comes across to modern audiences more as a HollywoodHomely UnkemptBeauty than "ugly" per se.)
* In "The Masks", a fifth-season episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', a wealthy dying man summons his family to his New Orleans home for Mardi Gras. Since they're all grasping creeps waiting for him to die so that they'll inherit, he makes it a condition of his will that they wear grotesque masks matching their personalities until midnight. He dies at midnight and they take off their masks to find that their faces have been permanently molded into those shapes.

* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers of Victory: Frankenstein'', teenage outcast Uglyhead forges an alliance with the Sheeda to get revenge on his classmates. To this end, one of the girls who made fun of him is forced to accept a Sheeda spine-rider, who forces her to eat herself into obesity.

Related to BeautyEqualsGoodness and KarmicTransformation. Original tales of BewitchedAmphibians were often aiming at this. See also TarnishingTheirOwnBeauty for when this is self-inflicted.

* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', the [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu Clan]] often Embraces vain, beautiful people, cursing them into looking like them. Depending on the individual vampire's tastes, this is done for two reasons: Some do this to teach "TheBeautifulElite" a lesson in humility, while others like to do this [[ForTheEvulz just so they can watch models and actors writhe in agony]]. Unfortunate victims of this kind of 'lesson' are dubbed "Cleopatras", allegedly after the character in ''Film/{{Freaks}}''.
** It's likewise believed that the Clan's founder, Absimiliard, was one of the most beautiful (and vain) of all the antediluvians, conspiring to murder his second-generation sire because she'd scratched his perfect face during his Embrace. When he went through with it, Caine made things much, ''much'' worse.
** In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', at least two members of the LA brood are (or were) Cleopatras: A supermodel named Imalia (who hasn't gotten over it), and a former silent movie star and their current primogen "Gorgeous" Gary Golden (who has gotten over it, considering he is Imalia's Sire).
** The Tzimisce do it on occasion as well, given that they've got [[BodyHorror Vicissitude]]. There's a NPC in the Mexico City book who made the mistake of pissing off Sascha Vykos; Vykos sealed up all his orifices, then Embraced him. The man has to ''chisel'' his eyes and mouth out on a nightly basis.

* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', as in [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade the tabletop game]], the Nosferatu sometimes inflict their LooksLikeOrlok variety of undeath on vain beauties to take them down a notch. One Nosferatu, Imalia, is a former [[FashionModel top supermodel]]... who will pay handsomely to have her UnknownRival successor's life ruined, suggesting that the lesson in humility didn't stick. (Justified, in that she's a Fledgling, a newly turned vampire.)

Related to BeautyEqualsGoodness and KarmicTransformation. Original tales of BewitchedAmphibians were often aiming at this.

* Part of the ''TabeltopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'' backstory has the Irda, a beautiful, powerful race of blue-skinned humanoids who were the first sentients created on Krynn who enslaved first the elves, than men when they proved more useful as laborers. After growing too arrogant, all but one clan (who were friendly to humans) were cursed by the gods and become the hideous green-skinned monsters known as Ogres.

* In ''Friend Request'' is the prettiest and most popular girl in her college who takes pity on an unpopular girl, Marina, and accepts her friend request. After Laura unfriends Marina because of her stalking and harassment, Marina kills herself, and her spirit haunts and torments Laura and her friends in revenge. Marina seeks to particularly punish Laura by destroying her life and popularity, with one of the methods being the destruction of Laura's beauty. Laura discovers that her face has began to deteriorate and become increasingly gaunt, and soon sees that she has lost some of her good looks and is no longer the prettiest girl in the school. As time progresses while Marina torments Laura and her friends, Laura's face continues to gradually deteriorate and she continues to lose her good looks, and eventually she is no longer beautiful. Laura manages to stop Marina, but as seen in the last scene,[[FateWorseThanDeath this results in Laura being terribly and permanently disfigured. Her face is ruined, she will never be beautiful again, she has become the ugliest girl in the school, and she has lost all her popularity and become an outcast.]]

* In the final book of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', [[spoiler:Graendal]], formerly one of the world's greatest beauties, is punished for her [[VillainBall counterproductive]] ChronicBackstabbingDisorder by being killed and reincarnated as a hideous, deformed old crone. [[spoiler:As a PsychoPsychiatrist with horrific MindControl powers, she promptly starts forcing her victims to see her new form as the highest ideal of beauty.]]