Beauty is Bad

If a character is beautiful, then that character is a bad person, either publicly or secretly.

Traditionally, heroes are attractive, clean and well-mannered while villains are ugly, unhygienic, and boorish. There were some attractive villains aka villainess, but a good-looking character is either hiding their unattractiveness or geekiness from the public (and will later embrace it), or is a vain, crass, vulgar, shallow, self-absorbed, unintelligent Jerkass.

Often, Beauty Is Bad appears alongside Beauty Equals Goodness in the same work, especially in romantic situations, because of the Double Standard.

This trope is the opposite of Beauty Equals Goodness and is related to, but not the same as Evil Is Sexy. Evil Is Sexy refers to the use of sexuality and attractiveness to add appeal to a villain (intentionally or otherwise); Beauty Is Bad refers to making a character good-looking to indicate that they are insufferable and unlikable.

Please note that Beauty Is Bad refers to conventional measures of beauty. If more than one standard of beauty is competing in a work and this comes into play, it's the more conventional beauties who will be not-so-good.

Examples Villainess

 * Poison Ivy
 * Mother Gothel
 * Harley Quinn
 * Catwoman