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12	->''"When in crime one is fully employed\
13	Your expression gets warped and destroyed:\
14	It's a penalty none can avoid;\
15	I once was a nice-looking youth;\
16	But like stone from a strong catapult,\
17	I rushed at my terrible cult --\
18	Observe the unpleasant result!\
19	Indeed I am telling the truth!"''
20	-->-- '''Sir Despard Murgatroyd''', ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}''
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22	Using certain evil superpowers or evil artifacts will leave characters scarred, disfigured, or deformed. So will committing acts of evil repeatedly.
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24	When evil makes you ugly, it's often to exhibit the "side effects" of obtaining untold amounts of evil power or of using that power to hurt innocent people. [[BeneathTheMask The external form morphs to match the internal form]].
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26	Since [[BigBad evil supervillains]] care only about obtaining power (typically at the expense of everyone else), they generally shrug it off when they [[RapidAging suddenly age by 100 years]], [[MultiArmedAndDangerous have limbs that they didn't have before]], or [[TheGrotesque can't go out in public anymore.]] This is because these changes usually have no negative effects other than the ugliness. A villain that has aged a hundred years, while he may be no wiser, will somehow avoid being physically hindered by the extra years. The villain with the extra limb will find neat uses for it...
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28	Trying to hide with makeup is sometimes tried, because MakeUpIsEvil.
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30	In video games, such transformations may be caused directly by less-than-honorable actions taken by [=PCs=]. The transformation may either grow or shrink in intensity the more evil one becomes. See CharacterModelKarmaMeter.
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32	Taken to the extreme, the evil transformation that corrupts the supervillain could [[KarmicDeath do them in.]]
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34	Sometimes an attempt at this trope fails; the character's [[FreakinessShame new features improve their appearance]].
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36	When BeautyEqualsGoodness, this is used to mark {{Face Heel Turn}}s.
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38	Compare RedRightHand, TheCorruption, EvilCostumeSwitch, PunishedWithUgly, EvilMakesYouMonstrous, PowerUpgradingDeformation, WhatMeasureIsANonCute and SubparSupremacist. Also compare WastedBeauty, which is more "Evil Makes Beauty Not Matter."
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40	Contrast with FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon, TheMakeover, and WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness. See also BeautyEqualsGoodness, where beauty is seen as proof of being good regardless of whether it's true.
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44	!!Examples:
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48	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
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50	* Practically a staple of Creator/JunjiIto's works. The more evil or unhinged a human character is, the more creepy and eerie they look. Very often a character who [[GoMadFromTheRevelation breaks]] from whatever horrifying events are happening around them will gain stretched-out, manic expressions that often look impossible for a regular person to achieve. Occasionally, if they recover from this or experience a moment of clarity, this trope is inverted, and they look normal again.
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52	* The [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Godhand]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Apostles]] in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' all [[WasOnceAMan used to be human]] before they made a DealWithTheDevil and transformed. Most of their demon forms are [[EldritchAbomination indescribably grotesque]], but even their more human forms are hideous enough to let you know that they are no longer human. Even those that do manage to maintain a decent level of beauty, like Locus, Rosine, and Griffith, still look very [[UncannyValley off-putting]].
53	* ''Manga/CatEyedBoy'' features the Demon Child, a young man who was born deformed and ugly with a wicked personality to match. When he was 22, he transplanted his mind into the body of his deceased but handsome father, but as his true nature slipped out, he slowly made his new body as ugly as he was in his original body.
54	* When [[LadyOfWar Ladies of War]] Claymore in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' tap into their SuperpoweredEvilSide, they inevitably become something in between the UncannyValley and an EldritchAbomination.
55	** Apparently, their normal forms aren't entirely without taint either. When a band of human bandits approaches to rape Teresa, several of them turn off-screen and vomit upon seeing her begin to disrobe for it. Proof that they are already on the path of being ugly. Then again, the Organization does have to implant the Yoma flesh into them in the first place -- that could have just been scarring from the operation that they were seeing.
56	** Dae of the Retrieval Squad is another example. He obviously has [[ScienceIsBad ill-intent in mind when he experiments on the Claymores]], and thus, [[TwoFaced half of his face is fucked up]].
57	* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] is a {{Bishonen}} whose facial expressions become noticeably twisted whenever he's angry or excited. He goes from [[http://www.mookychick.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/death-note-light.jpg this]] to [[http://pm1.narvii.com/5712/4ce8b78cd521a17192e183dd1c0596bc4212590e_hq.jpg this]]. The same goes for Teru Mikami, who takes it further with his hair hanging over his face and his eyes turning red.
58	* In ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'', most of TheMafia's leaders are very ugly. Clair is somewhat an exception, as he is a {{Bishonen}}, but [[DelicateAndSickly a very sickly-looking one]].
59	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
60	** Kabuto looks pretty normal most of the time, even if he technically never really was a good guy. After taking Orochimaru's place, [[SnakePeople however]]...
61	** While Sasuke remains good-looking, after learning the AwfulTruth about his clan's slaughter and JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, his overall appearance becomes messier.
62	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
63	** The World Nobles are horrible tyrants and also [[{{Gonk}} inhumanly ugly]], which the artist directly states is to highlight their ugly personalities. [[WhiteSheep The ostracized few with any kind of morals]] look much better, which applies even if they weren't before. [[spoiler:Mjosgard was a typical selfish World Noble when he first appears in flashbacks, and looks just a horrid as the rest, but when he reappears in the Reverie arc having undergone a HeelFaceTurn, he actually looks somewhat handsome.]]
64	** Big Mom of the Four Emperors [[IWasQuiteALooker used to be quite attractive]] and [[FormerlyFit considerably more trim and muscular]], but her BigEater tendencies caught up with her in middle age and she became a hideously-rotund BrawnHilda.
65	** A recurring segment in the volume extras is sketching the Straw Hats at the ages of 40 and 60, one pair for a possible future where they stuck with their dreams, and another where they gave them up. The former all look happy, healthy, friendly, and very gracefully-aged. The latter all look utterly decrepit, with comments portraying them as pathetic and scummy at best, if not outright nefarious. In the most extreme case, Chopper's ShapeshifterDefaultForm in the "bad" timeline heavily resembles [[OneWingedAngel Monster Point]], and it appears he's become a cult leader ''demanding human sacrifices''.
66	* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': When a La-Metalian is close to death, the darkness in their hearts is said to start appearing on their face. [[spoiler:Daisuke's face gets half-black but becomes normal in the end, while Selene's is normal to begin with.]]
67	* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
68	** Justin Law becomes Asura's dragon after a FaceHeelTurn, and after being disfigured he has half his face burned and shows his corruption.
69	** After Crona [[FaceHeelTurn goes back to Medusa]], she has much more success turning Crona into a [[MadGod Kishin]] than before. Crona's appearance doesn't change too much by default but is subject to a lot of bizarre {{Art Shift}}, such as getting a very puppet-like head with a face mostly taken up with a ridiculously huge, solid black SlasherSmile.
70	** Masamune, Tsubaki's older brother, was once an adorable little {{Bishonen}}. After he snapped and went evil, he developed a sickly, pale complexion, heavy bags under his eyes, and a tendency to go into BlackEyesOfEvil mode.
71	* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
72	** Marik from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' was hardly a good guy, but he's got nothing on his disfigured SuperpoweredEvilSide for sheer malice. Notably, the more AxCrazy Dark Marik gets, the more his veins stand out, the more his eyes bulge, and the more his face stretches.
73	** In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Takuma Saioh goes through the same process the more the Light of Destruction possesses him. By the time the Light chases out his soul and completely takes hold of his body, his face looks like a stage mask with a permanent distorted grimace.
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77	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
78	** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
79	*** ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'': It's debatable if Joker could be considered ugly most of the time. What's not debatable is that this time around, he is ugly, thanks to wearing his face-skin like a mask!
80	*** ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' sees the army of {{Evil Counterpart}}s of Batman, the Dark Knights, suffer from this from the Devastator looking like Doomsday, the Merciless looking like an old man, to the Batman Who Laughs being subjected to DependingOnTheArtist to the extend that he can look far more inhuman than his origin (a Batman infected with the Joker's blood) should suggest (with a seemingly noseless face, a wider-than-humanly possible SlasherSmile, ScaryTeeth, and OverlyLongTongue).
81	** The recurring ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' enemy Bizarro is an odd example. Bizarro is usually portrayed as [[CloneDegeneration a failed copy or clone of Superman]] whose physical appearance looks like a chalky-faced ghoul with sunken eyes and ragged hair. In some versions, he even starts out looking like the normal Superman but begins to degenerate physically once his mind begins to decay and his behavior becomes irrational and unpredictable. Bizarro [[ObliviouslyEvil isn't "evil" in the traditional sense]], but his mind is so twisted that he ends up causing a ton of damage and death.
82	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
83	** When Calvin Zabo, Marvel's version of Mister Hyde, transforms into his villain identity, his face twists and convulses into a horrid, angry scowl that matches his uncontrollable temper.
84	** This has happened to a few of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's enemies:
85	*** Sin, the daughter of Cap's ArchEnemy the Red Skull, received [[FacialHorror horrible facial scars]] in an explosion when she tried to put her father's mind into Steve Rogers' body. She is now her father's daughter [[SkullForAHead in every way]], [[spoiler:at least until Kobik repairs her face]].
86	*** The Skull himself literally took on his infamous moniker after getting hit with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own Dust of Death]] after one skirmish with the Captain.[[note]]Or in this case, The Captain ''and'' Captain America, as Steve was currently operating under the identity of "The Captain" and John Walker was Cap at the time of the incident.[[/note]]
87	*** Early in the current (and present) Baron Zemo's career, during a fight between him and Cap, he fell into a cauldron of a caustic chemical called Adhesive-X and was left for dead by the hero. Zemo actually survived, due to the protective properties of his costume, but because he had lost his mask previously in the fight, his face was hideously marred, giving it the appearance of molten wax. (Of course, Zemo has changed from outright villain to KnightTemplar now, but evil still made him ugly.)
88	** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom's pride and arrogance pushed him into an ill-considered experiment that backfired, permanently scarring his face. Though it could also be argued that his less handsome appearance [[BeautyEqualsGoodness presaged his fall into villainy]] instead. Tellingly, no matter how many times he fixes his face either through supernatural means or by switching bodies, he always ends up with facial scars again. Scott Lang once claimed that Doom does it to himself so he can pretend that he is alienated from humanity because of his physical scar tissue when it's really the scar tissue of his soul that repulses people.
89	** ComicBook/IronMan's enemy [[DatingCatwoman and former lover]] Whitney Frost, a.k.a. Madame Masque, is a terrorist leader with an origin similar to Doom's; a plane crash horribly disfigured her face, forcing her to wear a golden mask (provided by the gold-obsessed criminal leader Mordecai Midas) to conceal it. The scars have since been healed via surgery, but she still wears the mask to continue using her ''nom de plume''.
90	** [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers]]''. Loki is withered, nearly toothless, and looks decades older than his biological mother. Then the evidence starts stacking that, in this [[AlternateContinuity continuity]] at least, Odin intentionally warped and molded Loki into both ugliness and evil so that arrogant, brutish Thor would look better by comparison.
91	** ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'': This happens to Victor Van Damme early on in ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', transforming him from a surly pretty boy into a metallic satyr. This is also the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Reed Richards, when it's revealed that he has been behind everything in the ''ComicBook/UltimateDoomsday'' trilogy -- fittingly, since he has in effect become Ultimate Doctor Doom]].
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95	* In ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'', most of the RoguesGallery have [[RedRightHand blatant deformities]], often suggested by their names such as Pruneface, the Brow or Ugly Christine. When asked why this was, the author, Chester Gould said their crimes made them ugly.
96	-->'''Gould:''' I think the ugliest thing in the world is the face of a man who has killed seven nurses -- or who has kidnapped a child. His face to me is ugly.
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100	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': San considers the creation of the Many to be a new debasement even for Ghidorah. [[spoiler:Ni/Elder Brother's patchwork body]] created using the Many is shown to be gruesomely devoid of Ghidorah's BeautyIsBad.
101	* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Smurfette's Inner Beauty", Tapper expresses his belief that evil and sin causes people to age much quicker than normal, which to him is why people like Gargamel and Hogatha look older than their actual ages.
102	* In ''Fanfic/{{Everqueen}}'', Narthan Dume, the leader of the Pan-Pacific Empire, used to be very handsome, but when the Emperor meets him after the guy falls to Chaos, he resembles a zombie with MadScientist manners.
103	* In ''Fanfic/FracturedSovereignGFC'', [[spoiler:Lilith]] gets hit with this ''hard'' because using huge amounts of PsychoSerum in the service of an InsaneAdmiral is probably not the best idea. In the sequel, ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', [[spoiler:Sarah]] experiences this, as per ''Star Wars'' canon, when using certain powers. Like Shepard in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', use of "bad" abilities causes good looks to fade, while taking a more "paragon" path banishes ugliness.
104	* ''Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' gives us [[spoiler:Steven]], who uses Missingno to [[spoiler:bring his Charizard back from the dead]]. He then undergoes a shocking transformation:
105	-->He was hunched over, his bangs obscuring his face, his hair was wild and feathered out. Between his bangs, there wasn't even a face at all, just black, two red eyes looking straight forward, a white grin contrasting with the darkness.
106	* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'': In ''The Stronger Evil'', [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]]'s appearance is explained as a result of constant use of dark magic draining and twisting his body.
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109	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
110	* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' is comparatively subtle about this--as Gaston gets more and more obsessed with killing the Beast, he begins to stand and move in a more bestial manner, and he stops trying to keep his hair and clothing tidy. The Beast, by contrast, seems more and more human as he spends time around Belle.
111	* In ''WesternAnimation/EgoTrip'', the Mandark of the future has ''not'' aged well after conquering the world. Having complete power, he seriously let himself go, becoming a lazy slacker who gradually became a morbidly obese thing who [[EvilCripple can't even move without a block and tackle device]].
112	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheKingsBeard'', using a stolen fairy's wand as a human (an inherently ''deeply'' evil act, as this [[OurFairiesAreDifferent gradually kills the fairy as her power is drained]]) causes Jasper to gradually devolve into a demonic-looking, degenerated form with sickly green skin, pink eyes and batlike wings. In two different scenes, someone else is horrified at his gruesome transformation, while Jasper doesn't seem to care.
113	-->'''Wizzy:''' Jasper -- the power of the wand -- look what it's ''done'' to you!\
114	'''Jasper:''' What?... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Oh, the beard!]] Yes, it's added a couple of years...\
115	''[later]''\
116	'''Cuthbert:''' Jasper! Look at you! What has ''become'' of you?\
117	'''Jasper:''' Something to do with 'wielding a wand born not for me'... but hey. [[WingedHumanoid It beats using the stairs.]]
118	* An interesting willing case in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' happens, as the Evil Queen magically transforms herself into an ugly hag to fool Snow White, kill her and (ironically enough) regain the title of the fairest of them all.
119	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'':
120	** Gothel invokes this in her lectures to Rapunzel about the dangers outside. Alas for her, it means that Flynn does not appear to be dangerous, because he has normal teeth and doesn't look monstrous. [[spoiler:The thugs of the Snuggly Duckling do fit the stereotype -- but Rapunzel's appeal reveals their softer core.]]
121	** Gothel herself is also an example -- while she normally looks like an attractive middle-aged woman, she's [[Really700YearsOld actually much older]], with a [[https://tangled-2010-movie.fandom.com/wiki/Mother_Gothel?file=Mother_Gothel_rapidly_aging.jpg haggard, skeletal true appearance]] to match; she uses Rapunzel's [[HealingHands magical healing hair]] to keep herself looking perpetually young. [[spoiler:After Flynn cuts the hair from Rapunzel's head to save her life [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of his own]], Gothel [[RapidAging ages rapidly]] as she tumbles out the tower window to her death.]]
122	* ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'': The use of Daoist BlackMagic takes its toll on the body of the villains who use it. The General is already wrinkled and disfigured, and the "Little Daoist" uses a mask to cover the disfigurement on his lower jaw.
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125	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
126	* Unlike the comic counterpart's original origin, ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' has the Red Skull's red face as his true form after taking the Super Soldier Serum, which physically enhances the subject's true nature. Per the serum's creator Dr. Erskine, "Good becomes great. Bad becomes worse". So unlike Steve Rogers, he ended up horrifyingly disfigured to match his cruel and twisted nature.
127	* ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'': In the original trilogy, as Chucky stays in the doll's body, his face slowly changes from a young boy's to looking exactly like Charles Lee Ray.
128	* In ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', the Skeksis were once beautiful, slender, vibrantly colored bird-like creatures. They clearly didn't age well after a thousand years of ruling as hedonistic tyrants, resembling ugly old humanoid buzzards at the time the film takes place.
129	* In ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', Morgan Le Fay uses the magic she stole from Merlin to keep herself beautiful. When he tricks her to create a fog, her looks deteriorate to show her as an ugly old woman, so much that her own son strangles her because he can't recognize her.
130	* ''Film/FantasticBeasts'': BigBad Grindlewald was very handsome in his youth but in middle age is gaunt and prematurely aged. In contrast, middle-aged Dumbledore (who's TheHero but not TheProtagonist) is very handsome given that he's played by Creator/JudeLaw. However, when the character was recast between the second and third installments, he became more of a conventional SilverFox.
131	* At the end of ''Film/TheGodfather Part II'', Michael Corleone [[spoiler:appears much older in the final shot of the film than he does the rest of the film. WordOfGod has it that the scene takes place nine years later, but even so, it seems somewhat likely that the evil he has exhibited over the course of the film has started to physically corrode him]].
132	* Mason Verger from ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'' is left hideously disfigured after an encounter with Hannibal Lecter years before the beginning of the story, and his appearance matches his equally hideous character.
133	* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Voldemort practically turns into a snake from his dealings with the darker sides of magic.
134	* In ''Film/IMonster'', scientist Charles Marlowe uses a FantasticDrug to change himself into a different individual, Edward Blake. Blake starts out looking exactly like Marlowe, just with a different name and personality. However, as the film progresses, and the more evil acts he commits, the more physically repugnant Blake becomes.
135	* Near the end of ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', TheDragon drinks a PsychoSerum that gives him incredible size and strength... and glowing red skin with horrible acne.
136	* When Stanley uses the title object in ''Film/TheMask'', he becomes a clownish figure who's not that abnormal-looking excluding the green hairless face without ears. To contrast, when the handsome villain puts on the mask, he turns into a green-faced demonic figure with a [[EvilSoundsDeep much deeper voice]].
137	* Inverted with the eponymous Nanny [=McPhee=] in ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' and ''Film/NannyMcPheeAndTheBigBang''. The title character starts as an ugly witch, but as the family learn the lessons she teaches, and becomes better-behaved, she becomes less ugly for each lesson learned.
138	* Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. It's partially {{justified\|Trope}} since he was [[CoveredWithScars burned to death]], but [[Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare the deal with the dream demons]] probably contributed to his ugly, disfigured look too. The reason why he was burned to death in the first place was that he was a SerialKiller who preyed on children.
139	* ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' makes it explicit than ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (below) that "only bad witches are ugly" because of this trope -- going wicked results in grotesque physical changes. [[spoiler:Evanora uses a charm to mask her hideousness.]]
140	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
141	** Palpatine is severely disfigured by having his own Force lightning rebounded on him by Mace Windu. He displays little concern for his own disfigurement; in fact, he uses it as part of his overall gambit, first using it to convince Anakin to side with him, and later using it to garner overwhelming support for his seizing dictatorship and turning the Republic into the Empire.
142	** Anakin wouldn't have fallen into that lava if he hadn't turned evil. Even before falling into the lava, Anakin experienced slight changes in appearance (the glowing yellow eyes in particular). After his son Luke manages to pull him away from the Dark Side, he asks him to remove his mask before he dies, revealing that his eyes are blue again.
143	** The expanded universe seems to have an alarming large number of Sith, such as Darth Sion, who suffer accidents that horrifically disfigure them. In a universe where the Force exists, it might be a form of LaserGuidedKarma that hits them when this happens.
144	** Darth Maul technically averts this in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', as while he has a very menacing appearance, he's not deformed in any way (his species is naturally horned and his Sith markings are just tattoos) -- aside from the standard 'yellow Sith eyes'. By ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', however, he definitely qualifies for this trope, having been forced to replace his lower body with a pair of mechanical legs after Obi-Wan sliced him in half and left him for dead -- also, his ''teeth'' are in horrible shape, making him look like he's rotting from the inside out.
145	** Zigzagged with Kylo Ren in the sequel trilogy:
146	*** When Rey taunts Kylo about wearing a mask in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', he takes it off to show that he looks... normal. Kind of a PrettyBoy, even. It helps demonstrate that, even though he's trying to emulate Darth Vader, he's more of a NerdInEvilsHelmet than actually evil. Of course, by the end of the film, he's pushed himself past the MoralEventHorizon and Rey has given him a lightsaber gash across the face for his trouble.
147	*** But even then, as of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' [[GoodScarsEvilScars the scar is simply a clean line going down his face]], which seems to indicate that he's not completely irredeemable. He even gets a ShirtlessScene in the latter that flusters Rey. [[spoiler:It's a case of BaitTheDog; ''The Last Jedi'' heavily teases that he will redeem himself (a tease that his conventional good looks contribute to) only for him to [[RedemptionRejection throw it out the window]].]]
148	*** Finally, ''finally'' [[spoiler:{{double subver\|sion}}ted]] in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' when [[spoiler:Kylo Ren really ''does'' pull a legitimate HeelFaceTurn to help Rey defeat Palpatine, sacrificing his own life for hers ([[GenerationXerox not unlike his grandfather before him, who sacrificed his life to save Luke]]). He never became all that evil, and never became all that ugly either]].
149	* In ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', Chad's insane refusal to see the good-natured hillbilly protagonists as anything but evil (helped by his friends' terminal stupidity) leads to an explosion that burns half of his face. Then he ''really'' loses it.
150	* Bavmorda from ''Film/{{Willow}}'' gets uglier the more black magic she uses.
151	* A possible explanation for Glinda's "Only bad witches are ugly." line in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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154	[[folder:Literature]]
155	* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', Torak was once the most handsome of the Gods ([[{{Narcissist}} and knew it]]) before he stole and attempted to dominate the Orb of Aldur. When he raised it to crack the world, it destroyed his looks and left him in permanent pain, hiding his now deformed face behind an iron mask.
156	* In ''Literature/ChanceAndChoicesAdventures'', most of the evil characters are ugly (with the notable exception of Hank Butterfield, who is described as being very handsome). It is commonly noted that their faces are wrinkled from years of evil thoughts and grimacing expressions.
157	* Many versions of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' include the idea that Cinderella's sisters used to be beautiful but grew to be ugly because they were jealous and cruel.
158	* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'': When the Force-sensitive women of Dathomir draw on TheDarkSide, small blood vessels burst in their skin. Years of this leave the Nightsisters looking like raw, blotchy, lumpy messes.
159	* In ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'', almost all the evil Taoist Immortals of the Jie sect tend to have monstrous, off-putting appearence, being often several feet tall with very long hair, fang-like teeth, bulging eyes and amazing skin colors, ranging from indigo to purple to red to black to flour white. In some cases it's because they actually are beast spirits in human form (such as the four disciples of Tongtian Jiaozhu or the Winged Immortal). Almost all the heroes are virtuous and overall good-looking, with the exception of the good but grotesque Tuxingsun (a dwarf with earth-colored skin), Leizhenzi (a blue-skinned {{Tengu}}[=-like=] monster) and Longxuhu (a large, one-legged, dragon-like monster).
160	* The rulers of Laputa in ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' suffer from deteriorating health and appearance due to their obsession with science. In addition to a [[TheCaligula questionable mental state]], their heads have become stuck reclined to one side, and they often suffer from strabismus: one eye turns inward and the other looks up "to the zenith". Their clothing is ill-fitting because they insist tailors use quadrants and a compass rather than with tape measures, and it only makes them look ridiculous.
161	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
162	** Tom Riddle was a handsome young man, but by the time he is reborn, he is bald, has pale white skin, bloodshot eyes, and slits for nostrils. In a Pensieve memory that Dumbledore has of him entering his office to ask to be the Defense of Dark Arts professor after he began dabbling in Dark Arts but before he gained power, Harry notes that he had already lost his good looks by then and was beginning to resemble the pale, snake-like creature he would fully become later on. Even many years before that when Tom Riddle was still pretty handsome, he was stated to have already begun to look a little pale by the time he took a job in a store to get hold of an ancient artifact. This is justified as each time he mutilated his soul to create a Horcrux, he became 'less human'.
163	** Bellatrix is a more mundane example. She was once beautiful, but her years of incarceration in Azkaban, which were punishment for her evil deeds, left her a withered twisted shell of her former self. This is made even more apparent when Harry meets her sister Andromeda, the BlackSheep of the family who was disowned for marrying the muggle-born Ted Tonks, and is startled by how similar she physically looks to Bellatrix but with a ton more kindness in her eyes.
164	%% * This seems to be the case with the Rogue Red Fledglings from ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight''.
165	* This is apparently a law of the setting in the original 1997 version of ''Literature/TheJewelKingdom'', although it's not elaborated on in much detail. The 2020 reprint removes this; rather than turning pale with "ugly, twisted" features, the Dreadlings have normal faces but BlackEyesOfEvil (though a mention of their bony, furry feet slips through, they might just be wearing really weird shoes).
166	* The more dark magic a witch in ''Literature/TheLandOfStories'' performs, the more grotesque features they gain. This carries over to the {{Prequel}} series ''Literature/TheTaleOfMagic''.
167	* In ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'', the ritual of ''zin-carla'' brings back a dead person as an undead revenant that retains the appearance and skills it had in life along with all of the other advantages/disadvantages of being undead. The revenant is placed under the total mental control of the cleric of Lloth invoking the ritual, and the strain of it physically withers the cleric. It's heavily implied that Matron Yvonnel Baenre's wrinkled appearance isn't due to her age (though she is over a thousand years old, she would normally still be beautiful since she's a Drow) but because she invoked ''zin-carla'' in the past. Twice. The same thing happens to Matron Malice when she invokes ''zin-carla'' on [[spoiler:Zaknafein]] in a bid to kill Drizzt.
168	* Kerrigor in the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' was once a handsome [[spoiler:prince]], but as [[OurLichesAreDifferent the Greater Dead Adept]], he's horrific and repulsive. In this case, it's a function of him giving up his original body long ago [[spoiler:(though he still keeps it around as a SoulJar)]] and subsequently spending too much time in the deeper precincts of Death, which cause any spirit that lingers there to lose its human appearance.
169	* In ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', angels demand to know who {{Satan}} is, and he scornfully retorts that they should know him. They scornfully return that his looks are not what they were before his fall.
170	* Played with in ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'': The picture doesn't just grow old in the place of its possessor, it also bears the cosmetic consequences of his sins, growing ever uglier as Dorian descends into depravity. Part of its monstrosity comes from Dorian's incredibly dissolute lifestyle with all manner of drug abuse; worse is that while Dorian maintains a FauxAffablyEvil facade, the portrait is twisted by the manic sneer of a FullyEmbracedFiend.
171	* Discussed and averted in the ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' stories: the narrator, Bunny, notes that neither his life of crime nor a stint in prison has robbed him of his youthful good looks and his innocent-looking face.
172	* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': Zig-zagged with BlackMagic, due to the way it corrupts the soul and LifeEnergy -- practitioners tend to look ''great'' right up until they start to wither and/or outright rot from the inside out.
173	* Sophie from ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'': She is initially a beautiful girl from a village who dreams of becoming a princess. However, she's dumped into the evil school and gradually comes to show she is indeed truly evil. Not only does she become a real witch, she turns hideous, grows warts, wrinkles, loses teeth, and eventually becomes an atrociously wrinkled, toothless, bald hag.
174	* In ''Literature/SwanSong'', many people injured by nuclear bombs in WorldWarIII wind up with a condition known as Job's Mask, where growths overtake their faces. These eventually fall off, leaving good people [[BeautyEqualsGoodness attractive and healed]], but the bad guys wind up hideously deformed. One villain is so horrified by his appearance that he puts on a mask he refuses to take off.
175	* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
176	** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' has Gollum. While living in a cave for five hundred years also does its work, [[ArtifactOfDoom his precious]] greatly twists and distorts his appearance in a fashion that appears very similar to AgeWithoutYouth -- that is, he's inhumanly strong but ''looks'' like a pathetic shriveled creature that should barely be able to walk.
177	** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' reveals that Sauron, who once was a master shapeshifter and used a beautiful, benevolent appearance to trick gullible people, was eventually so consumed by hate and malice that he could only take the form of an ObviouslyEvil Dark Lord after his handsome body died in the fall of Númenor.
178	** [[SatanicArchetype Morgoth]], Sauron's old boss, had [[ShapeshifterModeLock the same thing]] happen to him after he destroyed the Trees of Valinor, though in his case it didn't even involve discorporation -- he just stopped being able (or willing) to change out of his hideous ogre-like Dark Lord body.
179	** The orcs, bred from elves and/or Men, are apparently among the most hideous things alive (Morgoth probably made them deliberately ugly, to mock Eru).
180	** The above having been said, it isn't a surefire thing, so don't assume BeautyEqualsGoodness or you might end up like Celebrimbor. But evil does tend to turn formerly handsome beings into freakish monsters.
181	* ''Literature/TheTwits'' explicitly states that Mrs. Twit looked quite nice once but has become ugly from having ugly thoughts all her life.
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185	* In ''Series/DieLieweHeksie'', there is the wicked Yellow Witch and the goblins of the barren and sterile Gifappeltjieland. Even their country is ugly. This contrasts with the BeautyEqualsGoodness presentation of the heroine and her friendly elves.
186	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The incarnation of [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters the Master]] we see in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken The Keeper of Traken]]" is in his thirteenth body and looks like death warmed over; Geoffrey Beevers remarked that this is what the Master is like without his smooth looks and charm: as he put it, "the essence of the creature". This seems to be a running theme with this Master. The first Crispy Master is the ugliest and cruellest of all, while the second Crispy seems to have "healed" a little and is a step back towards Delgado behaviour (how much of the "healed" appearance is intentional and how much of it is due to the limitations of Beevers' makeup compared to Pratt's mask is unknown).
187	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': When unmasked, [[BigBad Savitar]] is revealed to [[spoiler:share the face of our handsome, dashing hero, albeit with a disfiguring scar on the right side of his face. This makes sense when you learn that he is our Handsome, Dashing Hero gone bad, or more like, Barry's only surviving Time Remnant during his battle with Savitar, that was destined to become Savitar]].
188	* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Gregor Clegane spent his life spreading misery as the Lannisters' muscle. One of his most vicious acts was murdering the children of Elia Martell, followed by raping and murdering her. Elia's vengeful brother Oberyn would duel him years later as Tyrion's champion in TrialByCombat. Though Oberyn dies due to a moment of carelessness, he is able to fatally wound Gregor with a poisoned spear. [[spoiler:In an effort to keep his power, Cersei has Qyburn experiment on him. Qyburn turns Gregor into a zombie that is as strong as ever but is still visibly rotting. By the time Sandor faces him for the last time, Gregor's flesh is pale and rotting with visible necrotic sores.]]
189	-->'''Sandor:''' Yeah, that's you. That's what you've always been.
190	* PlayedForLaughs (albeit [[BlackComedy dark ones]]) in the ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' episode "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS14E03DeeDay Dee Day]]". At one point, Dee makes [[TheDandy Dennis]] remove all of his cosmetics, including concealer, eyeliner, tape to pull his skin back, hair paint, and "pec pads" (false padding in his shirt to make his chest look larger). When Dennis's true appearance is revealed, he looks like a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prz7que9MT4 pale, ashen ghoul]] with sunken eyes, thinning hair, and a generally unsettling demeanor. Charlie remarks: "That's what his ''soul'' looks like."
191	* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': Although Murdoc's ugliness isn't caused by the use of any evil power, it is a direct result of his own actions, as the near-deaths he's suffered at the hands of [=MacGyver=] and Pete gradually render him more scarred and hideous over the course of the series. He even gets his looks back after retiring, thanks to reconstructive surgery... and then when he turns evil again, he gets some new scars to go with it.
192	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
193	** When Rumplestiltskin becomes the Dark One, he goes from a plain, peasant middle-aged father to a wild-eyed, gray-green glittery scaled being. Other Dark Ones have gone through the similar transformation, though it may also depend on how long one has been corrupted. Ex. Zoso and Nimue have the same scaly skin look after being Dark Ones, respectively, for decades and centuries, while [[spoiler:a recently transformed Dark One Emma only gets a hair color change, and Hook doesn't change his appearance]].
194	** Downplayed with Zelena/The Wicked Witch of the West. Here, she has a regular human appearance, and her skin can change to green and back. Her green skin makes her look more UncannyValley than ugly, but the transformation stems from her jealously.
195	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': An internal example is implied; [[Characters/SupernaturalArchangels Lucifer]]'s angelic form is specifically described as beautiful by other angels who knew him in Heaven -- but in the present day the implication is that Lucifer's true form has been altered by millennia of corruption and evil and that there is actually something seriously ''wrong'' with him; with the prophet Donatello describing Lucifer's power as dark and toxic, and he's the only angel of any kind whose eyes glow red with dark pupils instead of the normal blue-and-white. It's also worth noting, Sam and Rowena found seeing Lucifer's true form and afterwards living to be permanently traumatizing, [[EldritchAbomination though it's unknown if the same would happen from seeing any other archangel's true form]]. It's not clear whether it's influenced by the Empty, but the form we see summoned by Nick is [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/supernatural/images/0/03/Awakened_Lucifer.png/revision/latest?cb=20190409070923 deeply off-looking]], especially not long after seeing AU Michael's true form through Anael's eyes.
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199	* ''TabletopGame/CriticalRoleTaldoreiCampaignSetting'': The Circlet of Barbed Vision is a magical item created by an evil spider-goddess that morbidly twists the appearance of anyone who wears it to amuse the evil goddess. In practice, this means only characters who aren't good can use the Circlet and when used, it reduces the character's Charisma by 2 points, making them 5% worse at persuading and entertaining people.
200	* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'': The goddess Rahja is said to be more beautiful than her demonic counterpart Belkelel, as the face of the latter is contorted by her evilness. They are implied to be both beautiful and human-looking, with subtle differences. Played straight with Rahja's son Levthan, who raped another goddess and was cursed to look like a goat. (He's that world's stand-in for the devil, though he's nominally a god -- the archdemons are the really evil ones) Those who worship (some) archdemons, or the nameless one, become gradually uglier, as the domains of some demons are directly connected to things that make you ugly, like disease, and the nameless one requires the sacrifice of body parts. On the other hand, being friends with the churches of the love goddess Rahja or the goddess of youth, Tsa, tends to preserve your beauty, as both have blessings that can remove blemishes or regrow body parts.
201	* In ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'', a demon's Torment affects its true, apocalyptic form. At low levels of Torment, demons may look strange or frightening, but they will at the very least come across as majestic and awe-inspiring. High-Torment demons, on the other hand, are hideous, deformed monstrosities, usually with a generous helping of BodyHorror. For example, a Devil specializing in the Lore of Flames will be a radiant figure WreathedInFlames at low Torment, and a [[FlamingSkulls scorched, burning skeleton]] at high Torment.
202	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
203	** In most editions, when evil mortals die, Lawful ones go to the Nine Hells (or Baator) and become either lemures or nuppuribo; Chaotic ones go to the Abyss and become manes, dretch, or rutterkin. ''All'' these fiendish mooks are butt-ugly. Even the ones who manage to get promoted into higher-ranking members of the infernal of diabolic hierarchy won't likely get any handsomer; with the exception of those that act as tempters, like erinyes and {{succubi\|AndIncubi}}, fiends are always monstrously ugly. A question pondered by philosophers in the setting even more than it is in reality is why evil exists at all when the afterlife for evildoers is known to be so unpleasant. The answer to that question is simple: people evil enough to go to such afterlives tend to have huge egos and imagine that when ''they'' die, they will become high-ranked DemonLordsAndArchdevils. [[OriginalPositionFallacy "No tyrant looks upon a wretched lemure and thinks that this will be their afterlife."]]
204	** Hextor, the God of Tyranny in the ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' setting, is clearly very ugly, unlike his handsome brother and ArchEnemy of Heironeous, the God of Valor. However, at least one myth says he used to be just as handsome, but his violent nature, and possibly jealousy of his brother, warped him into an ugly creature.
205	** The Splat book ''The Book of Vile Darkness'' has several Feats called Willing Deformities. By taking them, a character becomes deformed in some way (such as becoming morbidly obese, sickly thin, or even gaining a third, demonic eye) becoming hideous, but gaining special powers that benefit characters with Vile abilities.
206	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': This is one of two options available to the Abyssal Exalted. As their permanent Essence score increases, they must either work to become the beautiful and stunning incarnations of death or allow their bodies to decay into putrescence and rot.
207	* While ''TabletopGame/InNomine'''s angels sometimes look bizarre or alien in their true forms rather than beautiful, Falling almost invariably results in an uglier or darker form for the new demon (with the exception of the vain Lilim and Impudites, the latter of which still have the classic horns and bat wings).
208	* The title characters of ''TabletopGame/LeviathanTheTempest'' have their human forms become steadily less so as their KarmaMeter plummets.
209	* ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'': Mostly played straight with the minions of the Darkness. Most [[PowerAtAPrice Umbrae]] have hideous deformation as either a drawback or a side effect of the benefit, and even a number of [[BlackMagic Calignes]] can result in the user looking grotesquely deformed. Even the Tainted Allure of Vice Umbra, which does make those who have it inhumanly attractive, specifies that this is a depraved attraction, such that just looking at a Darkened with this Umbra tempts you towards cruelty and depravity.
210	* ''TabletopGame/ShadowOfTheDemonLord'': Literally and explicitly true. When a person does evil deeds, like harming innocents wilfully or for selfish reasons or using Dark Magic, they accrue [[KarmaMeter Corruption]]. The greater your Corruption (or the worse your luck) the more likely you are to gain a Mark of Darkness. These Marks can range from strange and disconcerting supernatural quirks or blemishes to horrifying disfigurements.
211	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', serving the Chaos Gods will inevitably result in receiving various mutations such as horns, unusual skin color, or tentacles. These changes do put strain on their psyche though, and it's not rare for a rising champion to receive too many in quick succession and become a mindless Chaos Spawn. Elves are mostly immune to the ravages of mutation -- [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide the psychological effects, not so much]].
212	* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', this is a given for anyone falling to Chaos, such as obese plaguebearers oozing pus from open sores, mutilated hermaphrodites with extra breasts, and general mutation such as multiple faces, tusks, tentacles... An extreme example would be Lucius the Eternal, who was once the [[PrettyBoy prettiest]] of all {{Space Marine}}s as seen [[https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:LuciusPreHeresy.jpg here]] and now looks like [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:Luciusart.jpg this]].
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216	* In Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Jekyll's evil alter ego Mr. Hyde is noted in both stage directions and dialogue to be remarkably ugly.
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220	* Played straight in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' due to creative license, but averted in the canon storyline. When the Av-Matoran of Karda Nui got turned into evil [[{{Mook}} henchmen]] by the Makuta, they only received their ugliness after being mutated by them through other means. Yet in the comics and books, they went through the makeover right away, to ensure that the kids reading them would get the message immediately.
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224	* In ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'', the ''reverse'' is applied: your Appearance stat determines how quickly you gain new corrupting (chaotic, thus evil) mutations, and a lower score results in you mutating more easily. In ''ADOM'', Ugly makes you Evil! It also becomes a slippery slope since most corruptions lower your Appearance, making the next corruption occur even faster and so on.
225	* In ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'', if you choose to do mostly evil actions, your hand-cursor will go from a healthy pallor and trimmed nails to having noticeably tanner skin and claw-like nails.
226	* Justified by Gabriel Belmont regarding Carmilla, the tyrannical vampire queen in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow''. In spite of her attempt to make herself look attractive so that she can attract hapless victims into her prey, Gabriel sees through this very easily (players should immediately recognize her failed disguise as ugly as well) and proceeds to give her a KarmicDeath. [[spoiler:Gabriel's not looking too good either after spending a few centuries as an immortal super-vampire.]]
227	* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The Hag was an ordinary young woman before turning into a hideous WickedWitch as a side effect of her [[ProfessorGuineaPig constant experimenting with dangerous potions and strange plants]].
228	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
229	** This is either played straight or subverted by the [[OurDarkElvesAreDifferent Dunmer (Dark Elves)]], depending on the [[TheRashomon version of the story]]. Previously, they were known as the Chimer and had pleasant golden skin. According to one legend, when the [[PhysicalGod Tribunal]] betrayed [[FounderOfTheKingdom Lord Nerevar]], Azura (Nerevar's [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric]] patron) cursed the entire race with [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes as red as fire]] and [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver skin as grey as ash]]. Only the Tribunal (mostly) kept their former appearance; the evil-looking Dunmer really had nothing to do with the betrayal. Also, the whole story [[UnreliableNarrator may just be allegorical]] for the physical changes caused by living in a blasted hellscape of ash and lava.
230	** This is also averted with the Tribunal themselves. Almalexia retains her original appearance as a Chimer, but she is the most unambiguously villainous of the three due to her obsession with being a god. Vivec's appearance is half Chimer and half Dunmer and embodies his self-awareness and guilt that he hides behind layers of obfuscation and half-truths. Sotha Sil's appearance is that of a Dunmer, and he's the most humble of the three and doesn't even see himself as a god.
231	* The main characters in the ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' games have their looks change for the worse the more evil they get, and non-evil [=NPCs=] are also less likely to become attracted to an evil Hero.
232	* In ''VideoGame/FallFromHeaven'', the Orcs are human worshipers of a god, who were deformed when the god fell (thus becoming evil).
233	* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'' and ''[[VideoGameRemake Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]'', the Duma Faithful all have [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation discolored skin]] and glowing eyes due to making frequent [[DealWithTheDevil deals or sacrifices]] to their MadGod. Some of them, like Jedah, even go a step beyond that and have odd pointy ears as well.
234	* In ''VideoGame/InFamous'' and its sequels, going down the evil route causes Cole's skin to become much paler (almost gray), and to develop small electrical burns. Your powers are also affected, with good powers being bright, natural-looking, and precise (minimizing collateral damage), whereas evil powers are dark, unrefined, and destructive. Interestingly, this isn’t just a gameplay mechanic; [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration the rule applies just as much to NPCs as it does to you]]. Evil [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Conduits]] like the Beast, Sasha, and [[spoiler:Bartrand]] either have [[LovecraftianSuperpower Lovecraftian Superpowers]] or manifest their powers in messy, creepy-looking ways like evil Cole. This is best seen with [[spoiler:Lucy Kuo]]; she’s initially good-aligned and thus has very clean and refined-looking attacks, but when she does a fear-induced FaceHeelTurn and allies with the Beast, her powers become much more chaotic and flawed in appearance.
235	* In both ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' games, the main PC character gets gradually more sinister-looking as he/she commits more "evil" deeds. In [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords the second game]], this also applies to the party members [[https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/strategywiki/images/d/db/KotORII_Portraits_Party_alignment.jpg who are turned to the Dark Side via the PC's influence]].
236	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
237	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Ganondorf begins the game as the 7-and-a-half-foot-tall, handsome king of the Gerudo. After taking over Hyrule and abusing the Triforce of Power, however, his eyes turn a sickly yellow, and his ears become pointed like a Hylian's. When he is defeated at the end of the game, he taps into the Triforce of Power even further and transforms into Ganon, a [[SinisterSwine hideous boar-like monster the size of a house]]. In the Downfall Timeline, where [[TheBadGuyWins Link loses]] the climactic battle against him, he remains in Ganon form across all of his other appearances, and in many cases [[AlmightyIdiot loses his mind]] along with his body.
238	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleOfAges'': Veran, Sorceress of Shadows, is normally [[MsFanservice quite an attractive woman]] and tends to possess other attractive women, including [[BigBeautifulWoman Impa]] and [[WhiteMagicianGirl Nayru]]. Her true form, [[spoiler:an evil Great Fairy]], is likewise beautiful... but after she is defeated at the top of the Black Tower, she has a Wallmaster drag Link back into her lair and reveals a shape she is ashamed to even ''show''-- [[spoiler:a protean, insectoid abomination that constantly switches between an enormous jumping beetle with Veran's face that leaves puddles of corrosive gunk wherever it steps, a leering wasp with a second head on its thorax, and a giant spider with a snarling rictus on its underbelly and a nigh-impenetrable carapace]] -- vowing that Link will "pay for [her] humiliation with [his] life" for forcing her to use it against him.
239	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'': The BigBad, [[MadArtist Yuga]], is ordinarily a vain, effeminate-looking man with garish clown makeup, but about halfway through the game's run time, he [[spoiler:fuses together with Ganon]] and transforms into [[spoiler:a giant, fat, Ganon-like boar with big meat-hook hands, sharp teeth, fully white eyes, and Yuga's makeup and billowing red hair]]. Despite Yuga's tremendous ego and obsession with beauty, he takes this transformation surprisingly well.
240	* Many of the Tainted in ''VideoGame/{{Lusternia}}''. Notably, this trope is {{justified\|Trope}}: the Tainted venerate undeath as an exalted state of being, so the blue skin, {{red eyes\|TakeWarning}}, and [[{{Squick}} profound decomposition]] are happening for a good reason. Some of their aristocrats are ''hundreds'' of years old.
241	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Commander Shepard's scars (and, eventually, [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes]]) will glow red according to how Renegade the Commander is, but recede if s/he's Paragon, explained in-universe as the cosmetic surgery used when resurrecting him/her responding badly to stress. Go far enough, and eventually they'll ''glow in the dark''. You can remove the scars altogether by building a specific ship upgrade.
242	* ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: The Captive Curse'' plays with this trope. The culprit, [[spoiler:Anja]], is quite beautiful and remains that way even when she's jailed... but she wears a grotesque troll mask to intimidate her victims. So [[spoiler:Anja]]'s soul finds a way to mirror itself in her appearance, even though it doesn't.
243	* When Klogg stole Hoborg's crown in ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'', he turned from a normal-looking klay-person to a bug-eyed, fanged, sharp-cheeked monstrosity. [[spoiler:The Bad Ending has the same happen to Klaymen.]] It's {{downplayed\|Trope}} in that Klogg was always selfish and cruel (the very first thing he did, ''seconds'' after being born, was try to steal the crown), so the act is more his true self coming out because of his evil deeds.
244	* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps''' antagonist, Shriek, had been grotesquely disfigured by TheCorruption since hatching, and was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized by the other owls]], leading her to fully embrace TheDarkSide.
245	* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', Dark Side player characters will gradually gain a more sinister appearance, though this effect can be disabled.
246	* ''VideoGame/TheSuffering'':
247	** Choosing the Evil morality route will cause Torque's appearance to become less and less human to the point that he almost resembles a diseased corpse. His skin becomes grey-green in color, with huge open wounds forming on his arms and body, and his clothes become dirty, discolored and ragged. His eyes will also be darker, giving a sinister looking glow.
248	** In its sequel ''Ties that Bind'', this applies to both Torque's regular appearance and his transformed state in Insanity Mode (the game's [[UnstoppableRage rage mode]] in which Torque turns into a [[SuperpoweredEvilSide nightmarish monster]] when he's pushed to the breaking point of his rage, [[spoiler:although it's discovered that these "transformations" are just Torque having fits of extreme rage in which he sees himself turning into a monster]]). In the Evil route, the creature looks nothing like Torque, with an inhuman, demonically red-tinged look that represents a complete loss of his former humanity, with horns, a leathery hide, spikes moving up its left arm and the blade replacing its right hand becoming completely jagged and covered in blood. It also moves more erratically and grunts the most when moving.
249	* Reversed in ''VideoGame/TwoWorlds II'': at one point, the helpful leader of a nearly-doomed colony asks the protagonist to hunt down the reason of their misery -- [[spoiler:an evil witch, who not only lives [[SwampsAreEvil deep in a swamp]] but who is indeed hideous]]. However, instead of [[spoiler:killing the witch, the protagonist can also listen to her unexpected pleas]]. Doing so opens an entire new subplot, which eventually reveals that [[spoiler:the real Evil One was actually the charismatic leader, while the witch was the true protector of the people, and it was due to helping them for decades that she had spent her life force and turned ugly]]... but in the end of that subplot, the [[BeautyEqualsGoodness other related trope]] is restored, [[spoiler:as the witch's beauty is magically returned, once the real villain is eliminated]].
250	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
251	** [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090628132951/wowwiki/images/5/5d/Cho%27gall_Issue_20.JPG Cho'Gall's]] association with the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] has led to mutations like spines sprouting from his skin, one of his mouths becoming a beak, and his heads sprouting tentacles. No, the second head isn't one of them, all [[OurOgresAreHungrier Ogre Mages]] have them.
252	** Deathwing's body is horribly scarred and twisted due to his use of the [[ArtifactOfDeath Demon Soul]] and association with the Old Gods, with metal plates fastened all over it to stop his body tearing itself apart.
253	* In ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'', you can read Nex-Mex tomes that give you some quite potent spells but at a cost. Reading these books doesn't make your [[StylisticSuck stick figure]] ugly, but will give you different "Perks" like white hair and weaker muscle, that decrease your moxie and muscle stats, so it's recommended to use the [[SquishyWizard Beanslinger Class]] if you want some necromancy.
254	* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathshead]] from ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' is rather disfigured-looking. Frau Engel starts off looking rather normal but is disfigured by a hacked robot just as she shows how crazy she is.
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258	* Downplayed in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaAnother'': once he is outed as the Mastermind, [[spoiler:[[TheKillerInMe Yuki Maeda]]]]'s appearance becomes noticeably more dishevelled and haggard-looking.
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262	* Kavonn of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' enforced it on [=LaBelle=] with a curse that makes her actions affect her beauty.
263	* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': {{Downplayed\|Trope}} with [[spoiler:Leena]], who [[https://www.lfg.co/page/1240 gains]] a [[LeanAndMean gaunt]] appearance with VillainousCheekbones and a badly receding hairline after she has a FaceHeelTurn and declares herself [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]]. [[spoiler:It's [[https://www.lfg.co/page/1256/ reversed]] as soon as Richard [[DePower strips her of the sorcerous power]] that had [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity driven her insane]].]]
264	* Practically a law of the setting in ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', as monsterification typically turns people into bizarre abominations, barring a select few. Especially highlighted with the Ugmon, a type of monster where an ugly person fixates on their appearance, becoming an absolutely ''hideous'' beast. Inverted with [[spoiler:Amai Mask]], an ugly person who fixates on looking good, turning him into an attractive monster.
265	* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' has a subtle and entirely mundane example: [[spoiler:Rachel]] retains the same allegedly not cute young woman's face, but her eyes become more creepy and her expressions habitually distinctly evil as she gains more practice in being a villain, after initially just having been manipulated into it without wanting to.
266	* [[CountryMatters Cuntons]], one of the resident non-vegan {{Straw Character}}s of ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', is overweight, suffering from acne, has bad teeth and a very odd skin tone. It's implied this is all due to her eating and using animal products, which the creator considers extremely evil.
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270	* In ''WebVideo/StreetFighterAssassinsFist'', abuse of Satsui no Hado deforms its user, turning them into a brutish demonic figure. This is how [[spoiler:Gouki becomes Akuma]] after two years of training Satsui no Hado. [[spoiler:When Ryu somehow taps into it, his face changes in a similar fashion and only reverts after Ken knocks him out of it with his Flaming Dragon Punch.]]
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274	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has a couple examples that double as EvilMakesYouMonstrous:
275	** In his first appearance, the {{sociopath}}ic [[CorruptCorporateExecutive industrialist]] [[BigBad Derek Powers]] is revealed to have produced a deadly biochemical weapon to sell overseas. He ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard getting exposed to some of the poison gas himself]]. After receiving emergency radiation therapy, he turns into Blight, a [[AtomicSuperpower radioactive]] supervillain who looks like a [[SicklyGreenGlow glowing green skeleton]]. Now his appearance really matches his inner self.
276	** This later happens to Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow; exposure to experimental agricultural chemicals turns him into a nine-foot-tall, deformed, hulking monster with SuperStrength. Which he doesn't mind in the least; he considers himself CursedWithAwesome and likes the fact that people respect him now, even if it's because they're afraid of him. (In his second appearance, Max told Terry that "Charlie ''always'' was a monster, now he just looks the part.")
277	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'':
278	** [[Characters/Ben10VillainsAlienForce Albedo]]'s new versions of the Ultimate Aliens are far more monstrous than Ben's were.
279	** After being severely burned and losing his arm, [[Characters/Ben10VillainsOmniverse Kundo]] has gotten scars and a clawed cyborg arm, with his eyes having turned red.
280	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Decades of dark magic use have rendered [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceViren Viren]] skin chalk white and his eyes pitch black. He has to periodically absorb the life force of magical beings to maintain the {{Glamour}} of his normal appearance.
281	* Inverted in the Season 6 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E26ToWhereAndBackAgainPart2 To Where and Back Again - Part 2]]": [[spoiler:Thorax, the defected changeling from earlier in the season, has developed glittery wings as a result of [[ThePowerOfFriendship making new friends in the Crystal Empire]]. When Starlight encourages him to release his love energy to overpower Queen Chrysalis, his body becomes more streamlined and colorful. The same happens to the changelings who follow his example]].
282	* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/PlasticMan''. Whenever Plas' past criminal identity Eel O'Brian is shown onscreen, he looks ugly and thuggish compared to his current heroic self, post-HeelFaceTurn.
283	* ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'' does this to many individuals of evil heart. As the BigBad, Baron Dark, had wicked intentions, his struggle for the Lightstar Crystal had converted him into a skeletal monster with the power to transform others of evil heart into living skeletons.
284	* Nemesis, a villain who appears in a late season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', was a rather handsome warlock, until an accident where he fell into a pool of slime made his face so hideously ugly that [[BrownNote nobody can stand to look at him]].
285	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiralZone'' uses a high-tech variation of this trope. BigBad Overlord creates the titular FogOfDoom, a SyntheticPlague that turns its victims into disfigured "Zoners", {{Technically Living Zombie}}s with no free will. Overlord and his enforcers, the Black Widows, use a device called the "Widow Maker" to protect themselves from the Zone's mind-control effect -- at the cost of becoming even worse-looking than the Zoners.
286	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' episode "Universe of Evil" portrays [[http://superfriends.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Enemies an evil Justice League]] from a MirrorUniverse. For the most part, they look just like their normal selves, but with [[EvilCostumeSwitch different costumes]]. Franchise/{{Superman}} gets some weird eye makeup. Franchise/WonderWoman particularly stands out, as she has the exact same costume as her normal self, but just seems really hagged-out. Either this trope is at work, or "our" Wonder Woman relies heavily on talented makeup artists for her good looks.
287	* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', Rocksteady and Bebop are two DumbMuscle humans who can't do anything right before Shredder uses mutagen to transform them into... two DumbMuscle ''mutants'' who can't do anything right. In fact, this trope is lampshaded by the Shredder himself when the experiment is actually done:
288	-->'''Rocksteady:''' Hey, you sure this is gonna give us all them powers you promised?\
289	'''Shredder:''' Certainly. Of course, you may have trouble getting a date for Saturday night...
290	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': Qilby fusing with the Eliacube transforms him into a pretty gnarly-looking OneWingedAngel form; but even after he's separated from the Eliacube, his hair has been discolored, his lips remain blue and his fingernails black; and if one looks closely, there are scar-like marks where his [[MarkOfTheBeast Eliacube-fused form's tattoos]] used to be.
291	* [[MagnificentBastard Nerissa]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' looks incredibly ancient with silver hair and nearly grey skin, despite her being roughly around her fifties or sixties, when her former guardian friends all have more normal appearances. According to Cassidy, draining her life force for extra power has done this to her.
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