Basic Trope: A plain character is made attractive in the adaptation.
- Straight: In the book The Alice And Bob Adventures, Alice is fat and has an ugly face, but in the movie adaptation, she is skinny and beautiful.
- Exaggerated: Alice is morbidly obese, has many missing teeth, has very messy hair in the book, and is so ugly people die at the sight of her body, but in the movie, she is the world's most beautiful woman.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is an Unkempt Beauty in the book, while in the movie, she’s clearly beautiful.
- Alice isn't exactly attractive in the movie, but she's not as hideous as in the book.
- Book Alice is a Brawn Hilda, while the Movie Alice is merely tall with broad shoulders.
- Justified: The movie takes place in an alternate universe where Alice is more beautiful.
- Inverted: Adaptational Ugliness
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice was made a Decomposite Character, and the beautiful woman is an entirely new heroine who fulfills Alice’s role in one of the scenes.
- Double Subverted: But really she’s Alice, and the "plain Alice" was a clever disguise of hers.
- Parodied: Alice in the movie is played by a beautiful actress in an obvious fat suit and makeup.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice, aware of the adaptation's tendency to make characters more attractive, actively resists any attempts to change her appearance, insisting on staying true to her original depiction.
- Averted: Everyone looks the same in the original and the adaptation.
- Enforced:
- The casting crew couldn't find an actress for Alice that looked exactly like how she looked in the original, and the attractive actress happened to capture her personality the best.
- The way the book describes Alice has some exaggerated body features, and the makeup crew can't create those fully. So they adapted those out and cast a normal woman with no need for makeup and special effects.
- Alice is the female lead, and the directors want to have a Ms. Fanservice superstar for the part.
- The directors want to stress the fact that Alice is on the side of good, lest the viewers get mistaken.
- Lampshaded: "You look more beautiful than usual, Alice."
- Invoked: A producer intentionally alters Alice's appearance in the adaptation to make her more visually appealing, knowing it will attract a larger audience.
- Exploited: Alice uses her newfound attractiveness in the adaptation to manipulate others or gain advantages in the story.
- Defied:: Throughout the adaptation, Alice's appearance fluctuates between being attractive and unattractive, with no consistent portrayal, leaving the audience uncertain about her true physical appearance.
- Discussed: Characters in the adaptation discuss the drastic change in Alice's appearance, questioning why she suddenly became attractive.
- Conversed: "Really, Alice was a very ugly woman in the book, and look at the beauty they’ve picked for the part. I kept hoping it would turn out to be a mask."
- Played for Laughs: The stark difference between Alice's appearance in the book and the adaptation is played for comedic effect, with humorous reactions from other characters.
- Played for Drama: Alice's transformation in appearance becomes a significant plot point, exploring themes of beauty, identity, and societal expectations.
- Played for Horror: Alice's sudden change in appearance is presented in a frightening or disturbing manner, causing unease or shock among the audience.
- Implied: The adaptation hints or suggests that Alice underwent a physical transformation, but it is not explicitly shown or discussed.
- Unparodied: Instead of being parodied or exaggerated, Alice's attractiveness is depicted straightforwardly, without any subversion or comedic twist.
- Untwisted: The audience expects Alice's unattractive appearance to be revealed as a disguise or illusion, but it remains consistent throughout the adaptation.
- Deconstructed: The adaptation explores the negative consequences and societal pressures associated with the emphasis on physical attractiveness, highlighting the superficiality of such changes.
- Reconstructed: Despite the deconstruction, Alice's newfound attractiveness is utilized in a positive way, empowering her and challenging conventional beauty standards.
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