The opposite of Adaptational Attractiveness, this trope is when a character who is conventionally attractive (or described as such) in the source material is made less conventionally attractive in the adaptation. This may be done in the case of villainous characters to make them more Obviously Evil, or in general it may be a case of Ability over Appearance if it's decided that an actor uglier than the character in question can play the part well. Another reasoning for this is that they didn't get it right in previous adaptations, especially for live-action ones.
Fan Casting
Penguin (Burtonverse)
Red Queen
Anastasia Tremaine
Harley Quinn (JLGAM)
Joker (Nolanverse)
Joker (Barry Keoghan)
Jack Torrance
Drizella Tremaine
Two-Face (Nolanverse)
Captain Hook
Cruella De Vil
Viserys I Targaryen
Splinter (Rise of the TMNT)
Miss Trunchbull (Matilda the Musical Film (2022)
Eddie Valiant
Samwise Gamgee
Hades
Arnold Flass (Nolanverse)
Oroku Saki (TMNT 2012)
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