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* '''Double Subverted''':
** Harry Hero gets his real appearance back, but is horrifically scarred soon afterwards.

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* '''Played For Drama''': People are increasingly turned off by Harry Hero's appearance, while people start rooting for Victor Villain because of his good looks----

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* '''Played For Drama''': People are increasingly turned off by Harry Hero's appearance, while people start rooting for Victor Villain because of his good looks----looks.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': To find out who'll be the hero against the dashingly handsome Villain Victor, people of Troperland hold an ugliness contest. The competitors put on horrifying wigs and makeup to win.
* '''Played For Drama''': People are increasingly turned off by Harry Hero's appearance, while people start rooting for Victor Villain because of his good looks----
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%%* '''Played For Drama''': People are increasingly turned off by Harry Hero's appearance, while people start rooting for Victor Villain because of his good looks.

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%%* '''Played For Drama''': People are increasingly turned off by Harry Hero's appearance, while people start rooting for Victor Villain because of his good looks.
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* '''Inverted''': Harry is attractive, Victor is unattractive.

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* '''Inverted''': [[BeautyEqualsGoodness Harry is attractive, Victor is unattractive.]]



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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???People are increasingly turned off by Harry Hero's appearance, while people start rooting for Victor Villain because of his good looks.
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* '''Parodied''': ???Sometimes instead of fighting him, Victor gives Harry beauty tips. [[GoKartingWithBowser They go to the salon on weekends]].



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'''Basic Trope''': An ugly hero is contrasted with a good-looking villain.
* '''Straight''': Harry Hero is ugly, while his enemy Victor Villain is noted to be a handsome man.
* '''Exaggerated''': Harry is a monstrous {{Gonk}}, while Victor is the most handsome man in the world.
* '''Downplayed''': Harry is acknowledged as slightly unattractive; Victor Villain is slightly attractive.
* '''Justified''': Victor Villain had plastic surgery in the past, while Harry's ugliness is a result of his tragic backstory.
* '''Inverted''': Harry is attractive, Victor is unattractive.
* '''Subverted''':
** Harry Hero is cursed, and his real appearance is a handsome man.
** Victor Villain is using magic to appear handsome, and is really ugly.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Harry Hero gets his real appearance back, but is horrifically scarred soon afterwards.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Harry is considered ugly, but [[SheCleansUpNicely cleans up nicely]]. Then he gets scarred, but gets plastic surgery to fix it. Meanwhile, Victor is attractive, but using magic to appear so; his real appearance is revealed, but it turns out he [[IWasQuiteALooker was quite handsome in his youth]]. His youth is restored and so are his good looks; meanwhile, Harry gets a makeover, and so on...
* '''Averted''': The attractiveness of Harry and Victor isn't commented on nor is it particularly relevant.
* '''Enforced''': The author wants a TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside Aesop, so he deliberately makes a beautiful-but-bad villain and an ugly-but-good hero.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Isn't it terrible, Harry, that not only do you lose to my evil plan, you're also uglier than I am?"
* '''Invoked''': Victor deliberately antagonizes Harry, who is less attractive than him.
* '''Exploited''': Victor invokes BeautyEqualsGoodness and uses his good looks to charm people into trusting him and mistrusting the unattractive Harry.
* '''Defied''': Harry makes himself more attractive so the contrast between him and Victor isn't so stark.
* '''Discussed''': "It's just like those fairy tales. Ugly hero, handsome villain..."
* '''Conversed''': "Why does the villain in these movies always have to be prettier than the hero?"
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