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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive person, often a woman, insists they are not attractive.
* '''Straight''': Alice is a very attractive woman, but insists she is just plain.

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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive person, often a woman, person insists they are not attractive.
attractive, almost AlwaysFemale.
* '''Straight''': Alice is Alice, a very attractive woman, but insists she is just plain.



* '''Gender-Inverted''': Bob, a very attractive man, insists his appearance is nothing special.



* '''Played for Laughs''': Alice does and says all kinds of silly things to try to convince people she is less pretty than she is.



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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive woman (usually) insists she is not attractive.

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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive woman (usually) person, often a woman, insists she is they are not attractive.

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice has slightly above-average looks, but thinks herself to have slightly below-average looks.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Alice has slightly above-average looks, but thinks herself to have slightly below-average looks.looks.
** Usually Alice believes she's pretty, but during depressive episodes she starts doubting herself.

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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive woman (usually) insists they are not attractive.

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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive woman (usually) insists they are she is not attractive.



* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a truly beautiful woman, but insists she is incredibly ugly.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a truly beautiful woman, HeadTurningBeauty, but insists she is incredibly ugly.



** Alice turns out to have hidden disfigurement she was concealing.

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** Alice turns out to have a hidden disfigurement she was concealing.



* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???Alice alternates agreeing with everybody else that she's attractive and averring that she's plain or dumpy.



* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???
Every other woman in Alice's area enters beauty contests when her presence would have otherwise discouraged them.
* '''Defied''': ???Bob shows Alice how pretty she is and stops her semifrequent bouts of self-pity over her appearance.



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'''Basic Trope''': An attractive woman (usually) insists they are not attractive.
* '''Straight''': Alice is a very attractive woman, but insists she is just plain.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is a truly beautiful woman, but insists she is incredibly ugly.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice has slightly above-average looks, but thinks herself to have slightly below-average looks.
* '''Justified''': Alice has body image issues.
* '''Inverted''': Alice is ugly, but thinks she is beautiful.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice turns out to have hidden disfigurement she was concealing.
** Alice was pretending to think she is ugly to get sympathy; she is well aware she is beautiful.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Even with the disfigurement undisguised, Alice isn't very ugly.
** Alice ends up BecomingTheMask.
* '''Parodied''': Alice melodramatically cries about her ugliness while boys look on, confused.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Alice is correct about her attractiveness level.
* '''Enforced''': Alice needs to be genuinely beautiful so men will like her, but needs to be insecure so she is identifiable.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice, you're beautiful. Now shut up."
* '''Invoked''': A bully attacks Alice over minor imperfections to undermine her self-image.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Implied''': When Alice is told she is beautiful, she seems more confused than pleased.
* '''Deconstructed''': Less attractive women reason that if Alice doesn't think she is attractive, they must be truly ugly.
* '''Reconstructed''': Then they realize that everyone just has these insecurities, and that looking like Alice won't fix them.
* '''Played for Drama''': Alice ends up harming herself trying to be even more attractive.
* '''Played for Horror''': Alice looks perfectly fine, but she believes her appearance is so ugly as to make her a BrownNote, taking a toll on her sanity.
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