When a character's appearance just doesn't seem to gibe with what's realistic.
Tropes:
- Absurdly Elderly Father
- Absurdly Elderly Mother: A woman has biological children in spite of being well past the child-bearing age.
- Absurdly Youthful Mother
- Adaptational Attractiveness: The adaptation makes a character more attractive than they were in the source material.
- Adaptational Ugliness: The adaptation makes a character uglier than they were in the source material.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Humans with abnormal skin colors.
- Anime Hair
- Arachnid Appearance and Attire
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: A character's appearance conveniently matches their powers, occupation, personality or interests.
- The Beautiful Elite
- Beauty Equals Goodness: If a character has good looks, then they are benevolent.
- Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: A character wears cumbersome and ghastly-looking braces.
- British Teeth: The stereotype of British people having nasty-looking teeth.
- Chainmail Bikini: Armor that’s far too skimpy to be protective.
- Evil Makes You Ugly
- Exposed to the Elements
- Family-Friendly Stripper
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: A character's clothes are very tight and revealing.
- Fur Bikini
- Grandparental Age Dissonance: A character's grandparents appear unrealistically young or geriatric.
- Hair Color Dissonance: An unrealistic hair color is meant to represent a realistic one.
- Handsome Heroic Caveman
- Hartman Hips: A woman with impossibly wide hips.
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
- Highly Visible Ninja: A ninja who isn't good at being stealthy, which may include wearing garb that would make it hard to avoid being seen.
- Historical Beauty Update: A work of fiction portrays a historical figure as being better-looking than they were in real life.
- Historical Ugliness Update: A work of fiction portrays a historical figure as looking more ugly than they were in real life.
- Hollywood Beauty Standards
- Hollywood Pudgy: A character is described as being fat even though they don't look that overweight.
- Hospital Hottie
- Implausible Hair Color
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: A woman with real wide hips as well as an unrealistically narrow waist.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes
- Impossibly Low Neckline: A woman's dress has a neckline so low that it's a wonder how her breasts haven't spilled out yet.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit
- Improbable Age
- Improbable Hair Style
- Improbable Self-Maintenance: Characters remain bizarrely well-groomed and good-looking despite living in circumstances that would make it difficult or impossible to maintain their appearance.
- Inhumanly Beautiful Race
- In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face
- Magic Pants: A character whose pants remain intact in spite of undergoing size-changing transformations.
- Magic Skirt: A woman's skirt stays down no matter what position she is in.
- Mukokuseki: Allegedly Asian characters have decidedly non-Asian features.
- Never Gets Fat: A character who never gains weight in spite of how often they overeat.
- No-Neck Chump: A character who has no neck.
- Noodle People
- Nothing but Skin and Bones: A character who is extremely emaciated.
- Nubile Savage
- Overly Long Tongue
- Rapid Hair Growth
- Paper People
- Playful Cat Smile
- Scary Impractical Armor
- Sexier Alter Ego
- Sideways Smile: Face-splitting smiles with obscured eyes viewed from the side profile.
- Stripperiffic
- Stubborn Hair
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: A huge being with a disproportionately small head.
- Wakeup Makeup
- Weird Beard
- World of Technicolor Hair
- Your Size May Vary