She Cleans Up Nicely - r/TopCharacterTropes

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u/Santa_Hates_You 22h ago

She has glasses? And a ponytail? Ew.

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u/seahawk1977 22h ago

Don't forget the paint on her overalls!

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u/Grandson_of_0din 22h ago

Am I the only one who thinks they all look exactly the same in both pictures?

I mean yeah a person can look more put together but an attractive woman is an attractive woman no matter what she wears or how she has her hair. Their faces don't change just because they have glasses or are wearing a coat.

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u/seahawk1977 22h ago

But what about glasses with a ponytail?

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u/CornPhilosopher 22h ago

Eww... She probably got splashes of paint in her overalls.

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u/Doom_Corp 21h ago

Some of these are just bad wigs or the character looking mean and frowny.

However I learned people are generally really really bad at faces and just recognizing other human beings. I was able to clock most of my regulars at the bar I worked at even when they were weary masks during covid.

It was a weird experience bookending my birthday with a friend of mine from college going to the bar I had been working at for eight damn years without my glasses (no false eyelashes and I wore my typical makeup) and a nice dress on a slow AF night and neither of my coworkers recognized me (one of which I had worked with the same length of time, the other for about 2-3). I am a 6'3" woman as well.

My coworker who was waitressing didn't even clock that it was me until she heard my voice to take our order

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u/Ok-Scientist-2111 21h ago

I’m 99% sure that this is a ragebait post and everyone is falling for it

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u/Grandson_of_0din 21h ago

I assumed they are pointing out how stupid this trope is and we're agreeing.

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u/Sandi_Griffin 22h ago

One of my least favourite tropes lol

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u/Tylenol_Ibuprofen 22h ago

I mean, character played goddesses is naturally going to look like them.

I mean hell Anne Hathaway in glasses, good lord.

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u/poopsmcbuttington 22h ago

I don’t think Giselle fits this trope, she was already a glamorous princess

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u/Weird_Vegetable_4441 21h ago

I agree so upvote but also, it’s definitely mostly about conforming. Which is why I must unfortunately raise OP this

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u/mr_panzer 22h ago

Yeah, she was gorgeous enough in the cartoon world to land a Prince, she just modernized to land a modern curmudgeon prince.

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u/EkobasherX4Z 22h ago

Me growing up with most of these characters thinking they were hotter before.

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u/one-n-onlyRey 22h ago

Anne hathaway is top 5 most beautiful girl

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u/CrunchyMold7292011 22h ago

Most of these are just attractive women without glasses or they have their hair down bruh come on we're better than this

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u/Cactopus47 22h ago

I don't think Giselle's an example of this. She was never supposed to look frumpy or dorky--maybe a bit disheveled at first, but she was always meant to be beautiful.

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u/MasterSergei 22h ago

Anytime someone tells you "You look better without glasses on" as a glasses-wearer,

make sure to always reply "You also look better without my glasses on."

Signed, the Glasses Supremacy Gang.

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u/CarterDire1 22h ago

I call this: "Casting an attractive actress to play an ugly/average-looking character so their transformation into a beauty queen is more magnifying."

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u/Koala_King5160 21h ago

"I'm looking for somebody that's really messed up. I'm talking about a reeeeeal shit bomb"

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u/NoNo_Cilantro 21h ago

Half of these examples are just women before and after makeup. The trope should be like the “nerd” going through a a makeover. A shower and a dress barely make a trope.

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u/Ladyladygaga 21h ago

I think about the wig in act 1 of pretty woman an unhealthy amount. That hair hat they put on julia roberts was diabolical

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u/foxfire981 21h ago

The trope only is relevant if her getting "cleaned up to look pretty" is a plot point. A woman who's working in a trauma ward getting prettied up for a date isn't he same as "ugly girl in school getting turned pretty" after the fact.

Princess Diaries is a good example of this trope. Enchanted wouldn't be as "she looks messy after climbing out of a sewer and then scaling a billboard."

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u/AJLovesChicken0567 19h ago

Amy from “The Big Bang Theory” typically wears rather dowdy clothing with a long skirt and shapeless sweaters, but in part due to Penny’s influence she sometimes manages to dress up for special occasions and catch others off-guard with how well she turns out.

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u/AJLovesChicken0567 19h ago

Janey Briggs from “Not Another Teen Movie” goes downstairs in her new dress and without glasses, with her family and Jake just unable to believe their eyes. Then suddenly a tread breaks and she falls to the bottom of the stairs.

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u/CarterDire1 22h ago

Yennefer - The Witcher

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u/foxfire981 22h ago

Just remember that the director, on stage with her, stated she cast her because "she wanted an unattractive woman to play Yennefer.'

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u/CarterDire1 21h ago edited 21h ago

If that's what she calls "unattractive", I hate to see what she considers attractive.

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u/According-Citron-390 20h ago

Bruh, why is everything I hear about this show more sexist than the books from the 90s.

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u/foxfire981 20h ago

If you want the honest answer it's often because when people try to avoid or fix a problem they usually end to doing said problem.

"I'm going to do Miles Morales as Thor so I'm going to make Asguard the most Harlem ghetto looking place ever with Miles saying a bunch of stereotypical lines so people know he's black." That is a lot more racist than having Idris Elba acting like Heimdall.

The director wanted to "empower women." So she did this by pulling moments like this. That actress is gorgeous. And even then in the show they do a lot to try and make her unattractive.

Think of it as the "Rose Tico effect."

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u/oceansapart333 22h ago

Sam Sparks, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

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u/Ok-Scientist-2111 22h ago

You got the order of the images wrong

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u/CarterDire1 21h ago

Opposite way around

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