Basic Trope: A character is made to look less attractive in the adaptation.
- Straight: In the source material, Alice is described as a busty, blonde bombshell. The movie adaptation depicts her as a plain woman with dowdy clothing.
- Exaggerated: Alice is described as the World's Most Beautiful Woman in the source material, but in the adaptation, her appearance is so grotesque, people vomit at the sight of her face.
- Downplayed:
- The typically attractive Alice is more of an Unkempt Beauty in the adaptation.
- Even in the original, Alice wasn't much of a looker to begin with, so the only changes is that her hair is messier and her face has a couple more wrinkles.
- Alice now has a scar over her otherwise gorgeous face.
- Justified:
- The original work is told from the POV of Bob, who has a crush on Alice, and he describes her beauty excessively because of this bias towards her. The adaptation has a more universal perspective, and not everyone thinks Alice is that hot.
- Alice is shot in the head and killed in the middle of the original. She is Spared by the Adaptation, but still has a bullet wound in her face.
- Alice's backstory is given an Adaptational Angst Upgrade and because of her newfound depression, she puts far less care into her appearance than her original counterpart.
- Inverted: Despite being described as plain-faced in the source material, Alice is played by a supermodel in the film adaptation.
- Subverted: Halfway through the movie, Alice dolls herself up, and she resembles her book counterpart more closely.
- Double Subverted: It's only an Imagine Spot. In reality, Alice's makeover attempt ends in a Cosmetic Catastrophe that makes her look even worse.
- Zigzagged: Alice is portrayed by a different actress in each of her appearances. Sometimes, she looks just as beautiful as she is described in the books. Sometimes, she appears much less so.
- Averted: Everyone looks the same in the original and the adaptation.
- Enforced:
- Ability over Appearance. Alice's characterization is very complex, and the only actress capable to pull off the subtle nuances happens to not be very attractive.
- Alice is a minor character, and the studio is unwilling to cast an attractive (and expensive) supermodel to fill such a bit part.
- Alice's backstory, personality, and lifestyle is written in such a way that would make it implausible for her to actually look as glamorous and well-kept as she does in the original source material.
- Alice's physique in the source material is impossible in Real Life, and CGI hadn't advanced enough yet to portray her accurately in a realistic setting* .
- Conversed: "Huh. I expected Alice to be way hotter than this."
Back to Adaptational Ugliness.
